I have frequently gained my first real insight into the character of parents by studying their children.

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.

Get the kNACk of being you by getting the NAG out of you. Find out how in Chapter 5.

You have to know yourself enough to be able to choose friends that you will be compatible with.

Don’t listen to the ramblings of fools, ” he said, smiling grimly. “When it comes down to it, if they knew the truth, no one would want to live on this earth forever.

Thought is the strongest thing we have. Work done by true and profound thought - that is a real force.

I always have the fear that, if I don't commit 100 percent to my work, then it's gonna suffer.

When you record, you live with what you recorded for many many years, but when you play it's just an hour and a half and then once it's over it's over.

Chat to the ghosts! That's what I do!

Well, the United States is a Pacific power. And we have always had a presence in the Pacific.

When you discover the wonder of giving, you will wonder how you could have lived so long in any other way.

We have a lot of politicians who have really small brains and really big hearts.