On general principles, it is best that I should not leave the country. Scotland Yard feels lonely without me, and it causes an unhealthy excitement among the criminal classes.

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.

To the one who views from a larger perspective....everything is a blessing.

I felt like an integral part of my being had just been ripped out of me, only to have it replaced with something that did not belong.

We ought to seek God's assistance in our affairs just as they happen.

Screaming is bad for the voice, but it's good for the heart.

I manifested in a dreamlike way to dreamlike beings and gave a dreamlike Dharma, but in reality I never taught and never actually came.

We've looked for the constitution to be a national pact, and the perception now is that it's not.

I won't let love disrupt, corrupt, or interrupt me.

When I marry, it will be to a faithful returned missionary in the Temple.

Since its founding in 1854, Penn State has proven to be a leading institution of higher learning.

Being a Scientologist, when you drive past an accident... you know you have to do something about it because you know you're the only one that can really help.