One must wait till it comes.

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.

Vladimir, be reasonable, you haven't yet tried everything. And I resumed the struggle.

If one plays good music, people don't listen, and if one plays bad music people don't talk.

Music is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music.

I've come to realize that real growth of character takes place in the valleys of life.

French troops arrived in Afghanistan last week, and not a minute too soon. The French are acting as advisers to the Taliban, to teach them how to surrender properly.

The most able seems clumsy.

Families don't have to match. You don't have to look like someone else to love them.

The older I get, the more I feel those kinds of ghosts - especially the women in my life - moving out of the shadows a bit more and becoming more present in my life.

She would always be my biggest what if.

Once upon a time, there were only three or four dominant women. Now, there are 10 to 15 who can vie for a Grand Slam.