If you had killed Watson, you would not have got out of this room alive.

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.

Stand up and walk. Move on. After all, you have perfect legs to stand on.

A gentle answer turns away wrath.

There is no greater hiding place for a secret than within the mind of a madman.

I don't know how to live in the world as a Shadowhunter without Will. I don't think i even want to. I am still a parabatai, but my other half is gone.

Take the risk of thinking for yourself. Much more happiness, truth, beauty and wisdom will come to you that way.

...approach change with an understanding of the process and an openness to the pain.

The Greeks invented logic but were not fooled by it.

In my opinion eight years as president is enough and sometimes too much for any man to serve in that capacity.

My way of communicating love and interest in people is through cooking. I grew up in an environment where food was really celebrated, and that gave me the message: food makes people happy.

The world is nothing but change, our life is only perception.