There are fifty who can reason synthetically for one who can reason analytically.

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.

Convince yourself everyday that you are worthy of a good life. Let go of stress, breathe. Stay positive, all is well.

To enlighten your life, see beauty.

For man always looked to hire a fool to amuse him without knowing he was one all along.

Heaven is no permanent abode of morons even though they may gain entry by sheer virtuosity of their deeds."Ashoka Prasad(Hegelian Lecture)

Instantly available without continuous presence is probably the best role a mother can play.

It would be really hard to get serious about anything political today unless it was a joke.

I've wanted to be an actor ever since I was a little boy.

We are human because we can fantasize.

The commercial spirit is the spirit of profit, not patriotism; of credit, not honor; of individual gain, not national prosperity; of trade and dickering, not principle.

We need to care enough to connect, to put ourselves at emotional risk and play one note worth hearing.