I have taken to living by my wits.

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.

Evil is inevitable, ' Reuben quoted, 'in the course of a creation which develops with time.

I am happiest sitting against a tree, with my notebook or sketchpad on my knee, capturing the moment.

He who attempts to resist the wave is swept away but he who bends before it abides.

God made a very obvious choice when he made me voluptuous; why would I go against what he decided for me? My limbs work, so I'm not going to complain about the way my body is shaped.

I mean, how many men would have gone on to the floor of the House as Carolyn Maloney did and wear a burkha to show the fight of Afghan women.

We have enough women of fame and fortune; we need more women of faith.

Two men look out a window. One sees mud, the other sees the stars.

I don't like getting patted down and taking off my shoes at the airport.

I blend memories. I blend them into one that's funny. I exaggerate to clarify.

A goal is simply a dream with a deadline.