The good Watson had at that time deserted me for a wife, the only selfish action I can recall in our association. I was alone.

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.

Your life is not your own. Keep your hands off it.

When once your point of view is changed, the very thing which was so damning becomes a clue to the truth.

The ways of fate are indeed hard to understand. If there is not some compensation hereafter, then the world is a cruel jest.

There is a soul-jealousy that can be as frantic as any body-jealousy.

Anything is better than stagnation.

When you have eliminated all which is impossible, then whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.

When a man does a queer thing, or two queer things, there may be a meaning to it, but when everything he does is queer, then you begin to wonder

No ghosts need

If you close your eyes, you get to control your own darkness.

Bravery is never measured by the magnitude of the actions, but rather by the choices made.

Yes, there's a problem with gender as it is today, and we must fix it, we must do better.

There's some things there that you just have to draw the line. Some people are just not going to like it. We would hope that everybody would like it.

Interview? Oh don't be ridiculous.

I also found being called Sir rather silly.

The sun doth shake Light from his locks, and, all the way Breathing perfumes, doth spice the day.

To a physician, each man, each woman, is an amplification of one organ.

... the genius never makes anything new, but always something that is just different, and the average talents provide him the possibility within which his genius condenses into achievements.

Be extremely subtle, even to the point of formlessness. Be extremely mysterious, even to the point of soundlessness. Thereby you can be the director of the opponent's fate.