It is all in the way of professional experience.

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.

Don't you find it odd," she continued, "that when you're a kid, everyone, all the world, encourages you to follow your dreams. But when you're older, somehow they act offended if you even try.

[Statistics] The science that can prove everything except the usefulness of statistics.

It’s funny. I don’t like onions but I like onion rings. What’s up with that?

In every case, I find pre-planning noble, but not always that useful in comedy. You know comedy once you're doing it.

I can't relax. I find vacations problematic.

A lot of actors are like, 'Why do I do this? My character wouldn't do this? This doesn't make sense.' And in a comedy, you kind of just need to walk into the door.

All almsgiving inevitably tends to pauperize the recipient.

One little lie or dishonest act leads to another until the perpetrator is caught in the web of deceit.

What's to be the reason for becoming man and wife, is it love that brings you here, or love that gives you life?

You must love and care for yourself, because that's when the best comes out.