It's a wicked world, and when a clever man turns his brain to crime it is the worst of all.

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.

... Chicago divided your heart. Leaving you loving the joint for keeps. Yet knowing it never can love you.

I just figured that was the life I picked, so I had to make the most of it.

The Universe is under no obligation to make sense to you.

You know, Hobbes, some days even my lucky rocket ship underpants don't help.

I want to share in endless ways, My expression of love for you, I'm no longer the beast of burden, Twas lifted when I fell for you.

Before puberty the child's personality has not yet formed and it is easier to guide its life and make it acquire specific habits of order, discipline, and work.

The Dharma is the truth that all natures are pure.

I can just talk about my world, and people relate to it because it's so familiar to them. It's them, it's not me. They're hearing themselves.

Who has magnificent self-confidence And fears nothing that exists? The man who has attained to truth And lives free of error.

Anyhow, even though I have this home theater, I love going out to the movies. Movies are meant to be experienced together.