We can't command our love, but we can our actions.

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.

There were two ways to be happy: improve your reality, or lower your expectations

Even the wheel of fortune can run over you.

It depends on you whether you want wrinkles or dimples on your face.

You have to read a book at the right time for you, and I am sure this cannot be insisted on too often, for it is the key to the enjoyment of literature.

Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something; in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones.

I don't value prizes of any sort.

I guess, there are always people that you latch onto that really inspire you.

Italians love sun, sin, and spaghetti.

He who falls obstinate in his courage, if he falls he fights from his knees.

I love working out. I mean, I've been doing it for about 20 years every day of my entire life. So I enjoy working out.