It is quite a three pipe problem, and I beg that you won't speak to me for fifty minutes.

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.

If you are searching for sacred knowledge and not just a palliative for your fears, then you will train yourself to be a good skeptic.

Character is one factor that will guide all our actions and decisions. We invested in uncompromising integrity that helped us take difficult stands in some of the most difficult business situations.

I went to a private boys' school, and we had girls in the last two years.

Blacks can get into medical school with a lower grade ... If that's true, a Jew should be able to play basketball with a lower net.

A market economy cannot thrive absent the well-being of average people, even in a gilded age.

Just think, IBM and DEC in the same room, and we did it.

Ah, stardom! They put your name on a star in the sidewalk on Hollywood Boulevard and you walk down and find a pile of dog manure on it. That tells the whole story, baby.

Regardless of the moral issue, dishonesty in advertising has proved very unprofitable

The role of Rimbaud is one of the most important roles to play for a young actor.

You have to be able to improvise and respond to what's going on around you. Then you might get a good piece of work done.