To a great mind, nothing is little.

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.

I'm just competitive. It doesn't matter what it is. I want to win.

The cost of college should never discourage anyone from going after a valuable degree.

I have no illusions about my looks. I think my face is funny.

To disagree, one doesn't have to be disagreeable.

Ennui has made more gamblers than avarice, more drunkards than thirst, and perhaps as many suicides as despair.

Most volcanologists die in bed.

Well, the nice thing about animation, you don't even really have to account for yourself. All of the physical stuff that you work on as an actor, you just throw away.

So when I'm working out I do things extreme.

A library implies an act of faith which generations, still in darkness hid, sign in their night in witness of the dawn.

I think Gary Johnson would be capable of being a good chief executive and yes a commander in chief - Aleppo to the contrary, notwithstanding.