I suppose I shall have to compound a felony as usual.

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.

One must not make too much of anything in life, good or bad.

I can bear any pain as long as it has meaning.

You have to fight to reach your dream. You have to sacrifice and work hard for it.

Guilt pins a fig-leaf; Innocence is its own adorning.

I started to explore computers on my own and first used one at the age of 6, when I was in first grade.

United States is a great Country and has its effective role on the international arena, so we have to boost our relations with it, in order to achieve peace and stability in our region and the world.

Even when you err, it is a thousand times better to err out of conviction than to hide your true opinion to respect some authority.

Search men's governing principles, and consider the wise, what they shun and what they cleave to.

Barba non facit philosophum

The sort of liveliness which increases with age is not far distant from madness.