There is no scent so pleasant to my nostrils as that faint, subtle reek which comes from an ancient book.

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.

In life, you learned that not all white people are racist, not all black folks are criminals, let's admit it and love one another..

Our goal is to have a country that's not divided by race.

I'm not actually a big musical fan.

I just know keeping track of what I'm doing and where I'm going is important to me.

You’ve traveled this far on the back of every mistake.

I really create everything I do from the heart.

I just follow my heart.

I have always noticed that people only think you are stupid if you do things differently from them.

I loved Prince then, I love him now and will love him eternally. He's with our son now.

What, sir, would the people of the earth be without woman? They would be scarce, sir, almighty scarce.