Keep your revolver near you night and day, and never relax your precautions.

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.

Every mountain top is within reach if you just keep climbing.

Only the dull don’t doubt!

Only the guilty and the lovers really fear. The first because of what they are, the second for what they might lose.

Danger for danger's sake is senseless.

That's in the nature of social change. So you can analyze what didn't work, but it's very hard to predict what will work.

But any Time is with us. And if we take control to shape our attitude and reshape our memories, that time is always now, - our time for the best possible uses of our lives.

People support CPF cuts because there are no protest outside parliament.

Perhaps...the nation and the world are in dire need of creative extremists.

They lay there for a few seconds, in the dark, in the future, listening to the fabulous clockwork of their hearts and lungs, and loving each other

I love Serena [Williams]. Seeing what Serena's done in her field has been incredible.