I must apologize for calling so late," said he, "and I must further beg you to be so unconventional as to allow me to leave your house presently by scrambling over your back garden wall.

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.

Holding on to positive thoughts and beliefs is your only guarantee to a happy life.

Celebrating love, wherever it is found" (Trevor Dennis). I'm using this sermon title as the essence of my novel

If terrorists are already on our southern border, a national-security failure has already occurred.

For God so loved the World that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.

If I get a cold, it lasts for a month.

It's better to be dead, or even perfectly well, than to suffer from the wrong affliction. The man who owns up to arthritis in a beri-beri year is as lonely as a woman in a last month's dress.

I believe in magic, and having a vision. The tough times made me a warrior. I work hard.

When people show you who they are ... believe them!

I want to be able to sleep in an open field, to travel west, to walk freely at night.

Go to American Apparel; they have all of the colors of socks.