If you can't be a good example then you'll just have to be a horrible warning.

Sloane wasn't interested. As a police officer he was concerned with crime, not punishment.

He did his best to explain this to Inspector Sloan afterwards. 'A funny feeling, sir.' 'Yes?' Funny feelings were not encouraged at Berebury Police Station.

Though, ' observed Sloan profoundly, 'where there's a will there's usually a relative.

If there was one thing which Sloan had learned over the years it was that you should never underestimate the element of luck in detective work.

If ... you can't be a good example then you'll just have to be a horrible warning.

No matter how kind you are, always expect a few imbeciles.

We may see the small value God has for riches, by the people he gives them to.

Humility is just as much the opposite of self-abasement as it is of self-exaltation.

I don't know, but I stepped on a scale that gives fortunes and the card read Come back in 15 minutes alone.

Parsimony is enough to make the master of the golden mines as poor as he that has nothing; for a man may be brought to a morsel of bread by parsimony as well as profusion.

Ideas do not respect national frontiers, and this is especially so where language and other traditions are in common.

It is very simple, Messi is the best in the world, and if you give him a little bit of space, he can do whatever he wants.

When we carve out a niche for ourselves in our imagined future, and decide that we won't be happy until we achieve it, we can only feel threatened and anxious over anything that stands in our way.

I was born into a world of art. I always thought that in life, you breathe, you eat, you go to sleep and you draw.

Why waste good shots in practice when you might need them in a match?