Of all ghosts the ghosts of our old loves are the worst.

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.

Focus on your goals, not your fear. Focus like a laser beam on your goals.

People who have stepped fully into their power know they don't have to push or force things they know that real power comes from surrender.

Winning a game is good

Politicians study hard and work diligently their entire lives to be able to stand in front of a national audience and lie through their teeth.

To be baptized means to make the passage with the people of Israel and with Jesus from slavery to freedom and from death to new life. It is a commitment to a life in and through Jesus.

Chicago's buoy was a couple of hundred yards astern of Arizona, and I was saddened to look at her.

Bloggers intent on self-expression which renders no service to readers don't get read.

My theory was that a city without a newspaper is a city without a soul.

My problem is that I appeal to everyone that can do me absolutely no good.

They say it's the good girls who keep diaries. The bad girls never have the time. Me, I just wanna live a life I'm gonna remember even if I don't write it down.