Most men of business think "Anyhow this system will probably last my time. It has gone on a long time, and is likely to go on still.

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.

We need a backbone, not a wishbone.

Happiness is not a state to arrive at but a manner of traveling.

All men's miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone.

The first time I took acid, I made the decision that I would stay in New York and find an independent film company to get a job with.

Then love knew it was called love. And when I lifted my eyes to your name, suddenly your heart showed me my way

There are people and nations, Mother, that I would like to say to you by name. I entrust them to you in silence, I entrust them to you in the way that you know best.

The secret of life', he said, 'is to become very very good at somethin' that's very very 'ard to do.

I've never understood how God could expect His creatures to pick the one true religion by faith-it strikes me as a sloppy way to run a universe.

We must...submit ourselves in adversity to the will of a merciful God as cheerfully as in prosperity.

Tonight I am going to defecate on stage because I think that is the only way to express the nature of my soul according to rock and roll.