Violence does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls into the pit which he digs for another.

A sandwich and a cup of coffee, and then off to violin-land, where all is sweetness and delicacy and harmony.

Women are naturally secretive, and they like to do their own secreting.

He is not a bad fellow, though an absolute imbecile in his profession. He has one positive virtue. He is as brave as a bulldog and as tenacious as a lobster if he gets his claws upon anyone.

The stage lost a fine actor, even as science lost an acute reasoner, when [Holmes] became a specialist in crime.

I think that I had better go, Holmes.""Not a bit, doctor. Stay where you are. I am lost without my Boswell.

It is a capital mistake to theorise before one has data.

The future was with Fate. The present was our own.~ The Poison Belt

I fear that I bore you with these details, but I have to let you see my little difficulties, if you are to understand the situation.

When a doctor does go wrong he is the first of criminals.

The actual handbag is neither here nor there-- it's what you keep in it that's the most important thing.

Great hardship always seems to be the prerequisite to meaningful spiritual growth.

If you have two shirts in your closet, one belongs to you and the other to the man with no shirt.

I don't think I really have any wisdom. Stay out of trouble. Good luck. Stay away from women because they will burn you, haha.

Jerusalem is a time bomb that I fear is just waiting to go off.

More important, you have to stay happy and positive or the stress will kill you - but at least it will make you skinny

If there's no world 'out there' what are you reacting to? Ask yourself that question every moment of every day when your peace is disturbed.

People want economy, and they'll pay any price to get it.

I don't like seeing celebs looking too skinny, I love it when they look healthy and comfortable in their bodies and embrace their curves.

A man learns all his life, and dies the day he thinks that he has learnt everything.