So complex is the human spirit that it can itself scarce discern the deep springs which impel it to action.

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.

Greatness comes from the inside and once you believe you have it, it's yours to share with the world.

A friend is a favourable family.

Inside you there’s an artist you don’t know about… say yes quickly, if you know, if you’ve known it from before the beginning of the universe.

For me, my films have already aged. When they're finished, I don't want to watch them. Of course, I feel protective, but I try not to attach myself to these stories.

If you can see it, you can hit it and if you can hit it, you can hole it.

YES we have a soul but it's made of lots of tiny robots

The Philippines is where Asia wears a smile. Beautiful products can only be made by happy people.

Loyalty to the school to which your parents pay to send you seemed to me like feeling loyalty to Selfridges.

Greed is the inventor of injustice as well as the current enforcer.

Tears for the mourners who are left behind Peace everlasting for the quiet dead.