It is often said that men are ruled by their imaginations; but it would be truer to say they are governed by the weakness of their imaginations.

A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.

You may talk of the tyranny of Nero and Tiberius; but the real tyranny is the tyranny of your next-door neighbor.

A severe though not unfriendly critic of our institutions said that the cure for admiring the House of Lords was to go and look at it.

The best reason why Monarchy is a strong government is, that it is an intelligible government. The mass of mankind understand it, and they hardly anywhere in the world understand any other.

Progress would not have been the rarity it is if the early food had not been the late poison.

Royalty is a government in which the attention of the nation is concentrated on one person doing interesting actions.

Nothing is more unpleasant than a virtuous person with a mean mind.

One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.

A Parliament is nothing less than a big meeting of more or less idle people.

Life is a school of probability.

Our existence and our environment enclose entities of divinity.

Tantra acceptance is total

I was awfully curious to find out why I didn't go insane.

Maybe it's shallow of me to have a wife that's so beautiful, but it makes things easier. To me she's the most beautiful woman in the world.

I saw 'The Artist.' It's really beautiful and it's all done to the letter with all the silent film techniques. The costumes were amazing and the dog is so good.

Before perception, before a preceiver, existence was - is. This is the consciousness that we refer to as nirvana, God, eternity.

Usually, you don't really end up lifelong buddies with your co-stars.

I'm just going to stay single forever. I could never live with anybody ever again.

Do not worry if all the candles in the world flicker and die. We have the spark that starts the fire.

No corporeal substance can be so subtle and swift as this.