Still, it is an error to argue in front of your data. You find yourself insensibly twisting them round to fit your theories.

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.

Hatred is always at war with love that keeps growing.

Invest in yourself. your career is the engine of your wealth.

she knew what she wanted and it wasn't / me. / I know more women like that than any / other kind.

There's a direct link between percentage of young people that are educated and how we live our lives.

Once a person was asked to step into this brutal century, anything could happen

I had a dream I was walking down the street and didn't have to hold anyone's hand

[A]s previous studies have concluded, the Antarctic and Greenland ice sheets are probably thickening rather than melting.

Mind is a broken mirror.

Never underestimate the heart of a champion.

I love the live cut part of making records the surprises are the prizes.