I am afraid that I rather give myself away when I explain, " said he. "Results without causes are much more impressive.

A dog reflects the family life. Whoever saw a frisky dog in a gloomy family, or a sad dog in a happy one? Snarling people have snarling dogs, dangerous people have dangerous ones.

Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.

Where there is no imagination there is no horror.

The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes.

It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts.

It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important.

Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent.

I consider that a man's brain originally is like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture as you choose.

London, that great cesspool into which all the loungers and idlers of the Empire are irresistibly drained.

When the impossible has been eliminated, all that remains no matter how improbable is possible.

I change the world, the world changes me.

Most of us experience a life full of wonderful moments and difficult moments. But for many of us, even when we are most joyful, there is fear behind our joy.

He no longer represented someday a possibility. He represented a road not taken a road that suddenly shot so far into the distance she couldn’t see it anymore.

Not all information is beneficial.

Stress is like fire: When controlled and used for a purpose, it serves us well. Left unbridled, it can consume us.

We can deceive ourselves into thinking we are developing spirituality when instead we are strengthening our egocentricity through spiritual techniques.

You can kill that man but not his song, When it's sung the whole world round...

I am a black diamond, unfaceted. Black diamonds are rare, hard to cut, and therefore uncommercial.

My roots were pretty far removed from high income. It's interesting to be back there at the level of income I have now, at this stage in my life.

I was excited about The Dark Knight until Heath Ledger gave away the ending, Batman always wins.