When the impossible has been eliminated, all that remains no matter how improbable is possible.

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.

Detection is, or ought to be, an exact science, and should be treated in the same cold and unemotional manner.

If you are not afraid of rising, you will see that wings start growing in your body!

Simplicity in character, in manners, in style; in all things the supreme excellence is simplicity.

Relate to the little instead of relating to the big. The little is indomitable.

Alternative music is no longer alternative once it’s in the mainstream.

None of the original love and feel for going on stage is gone. I'm not a true singer. I'm performer, and I need to be on stage.

In the United States, the immigrant experience occupies a very central place in American mythology. And sometimes, that place wavers between acceptance and rejection.

The stars awaken a certain reverence, because though always present, they are inaccessible.

As intellectual as we think we are, you still trip, we still have human foibles, sexuality, all the different things to still make you aware of your humanity.

I don't have a hateful bone in my body. I don't believe anyone should be bullied or made to feel bad about who they are.

The lifestyle I lead as a footballer means I am always in the spotlight.