Should I ever marry, Watson, I should hope to inspire my wife with some feeling which would prevent her from being walked off by a housekeeper when my corpse was lying within a few yards of her.

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.

When you go nearer to God, He shows you what to do, He tells you when to do it and He backs whatever He promised.

Immense self-made wealth is the evidence of a grandly rich mind

He is himself again, more himself than at any time on this Earth." Nancy Reagan on her husband

We didn't know each other before [the film "Killing Reagan"], but I just knew we would love each other [with Tim Matheson].

He who loves community destroys community; he who loves the brethren builds community.

As a writer, putting words on the page is how I pay attention.

The very best of vineyards is the cellar

It's very painful to be in debt. I'm the kind of person who would rather almost die than go into debt.

The money is what made me miserable. I want to be free of that stress.

Dancing is the normal prelude to intercourse.