Life is a school of probability.

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.

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

There are two types of risk in life: the danger of trying and the danger of not trying.

If you don't do anything stupid when you're young, you won't remember something funny when you're old.

Beauty is my heritage and my core. But my passion is design for the spaces where we live and work.

I'm so fortunate in that I've never had another job to pay a bill but acting, since the day I got out of high school.

The thing with high-tech is that you always end up using scissors.

What's the need of working if it doesn't get you anywhere? What's the use of boring around in the same hole like a worm? Making the hole bigger to stay in?

The big cities of America are becoming Third World countries.

By writing quickly we are not brought to write well, but by writing well we are brought to write quickly.

It is false to believe that the sun revolves around the earth, but it is not absurd.

What good would politics be, if it didn’t give everyone the opportunity to make moral compromises.