As a rule, the more bizarre a thing is, the less mysterious it proves to be.

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.

Critical in this process of wisdom being passed down is that you also need to take it in; you need to listen to it.

I believe any decline would lock in a Fed increase with some certainty.

My petite little platinum blonde beauty of a wife suddenly turned into a public-relations dynamo. "The business is Buzz!" she proclaimed, and indeed so it became.

When the mind, body, and spirit work together, I believe anything is possible.

What may look like a small act of courage is courage nevertheless. The important thing is to be willing to take a step forward.

It's wrong to criticize leaders of the Church, even if the criticism is true.

Nothing is more generally known than the duties which belong to christianity; and yet, how amazing is it, nothing is less practised?

The single biggest existential threat that's out there, I think, is cyber.

Better live a King, than a Prince.

You can be guaranteed a story on the presidential campaign is gonna lampoon the Republican candidate in every one of those news agencies.