Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.

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.

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.

Detection is, or ought to be, an exact science, and should be treated in the same cold and unemotional manner.

A primary purpose of the police is to enforce the delusions of those with lots of green paper.

God put Santa Claus on earth to remind us that Christmas is 'sposed to be a happy time.

Discouragement is like a scorpion in your shoe

When Im competing, I need to be strong.

Fear can be overcome only by Faith.

An awful lot of thriller writers write women rather badly. So just doing it OK gets a lot of credit.

it is a curious fact, but one which all experience owns, that people do not desire so much to appear better, as to appear different from what they really are.

We have a world to conquer...one person at a time...starting with ourselves.

... I suddenly woke up to the fact that if I accepted anybody's definition of what there was in the world, I would be limited.

Sometimes, all it takes to save people from a terrible fate is one person willing to do something about it. Even if that "something" is a fake bathroom break.