I know, my dear Watson, that you share my love of all that is bizarre and outside the conventions and humdrum routine of daily life.

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.

In painting, three things must be considered - the position of the viewer, the position of the object viewed, and the position of the light that illuminates the object.

Only friends will tell you the truths you need to hear to make ... your life bearable.

Chumaka ended with a quotation from a play that Jiro favored. “ ‘Small acts partner small houses and small minds'.

The Vietnam War totally turned my life around. Some people's lives were eliminated or destroyed by the experience. I was one of the fortunate few who came out better off.

It's so hard to find the time. I only have one kid and it's hard with one kid. I can't imagine people who have more than that.

TAKING CARE OF BUSINESS...guess Elvis use to say it alot and had necklaces made with initials TCB

Respect other people regardless of the level they are at... or the level you are at. When you hand out respect, you get it back.

It would be absolutely useless for any of us to work to save wildlife without working to educate the next generation of conservationists.

In the church we have to deliberately let ourselves be transparent and accountable to others. We're a family.

Never, ever, ever wear anything you are uncomfortable in. Because that is what you'll project: 'I look like a fool.'