It is decreed by a merciful Nature that the human brain cannot think of two things simultaneously . . .

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.

There are enough real enemies and threats in the world without having to invent imaginary ones.

...knowing often felt preferable to not knowing. It provided the illusion of control.

A picture should capture a moment, a place in time you can return to again and again.

My dad farmed, my granddad was a farmer. I wanted to be a farmer.

Be glad I don't have my gun because right now I'm considering the different ways I can get you to shut up. Let me scream and back off.

The idea with theatre is to come to an environment that you enjoy.

You know what I'm talking about. This business has changed. Flyers aren't pilots anymore, they're engineers. This is a college man's game. Our work is done. The pioneering is over.

If you think there's something you need in order to be happy, then you believe in lack. Then believing you lack, you will create more lack.

There is no human feeling to the US securities markets and sometimes no discernible evidence of human intelligence either. But they work.

The iPod is not a new category. Music is not new. It's not a speculative market. It's a very, very large market. It's been around for thousands of years and will be around as long as humans exist.