Poverty is an anomaly to rich people: it is very difficult to make out why people who want dinner do not ring the bell.

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.

The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.

If your vision doesn't scare you, then both your vision and your God are too small.

Philosophy has no end in view save truth; faith looks for nothing but obedience and piety.

You will be led to do the right thing at the right time and in the right way.

Paralympics... fascinating because just watching anyone with a major disability trying to do everyday chores is fun to watch.

I love the whirling of the dervishes. I love the beauty of rare innocence. You don't need no crystal ball, Don't fall for a magic wand. We humans got it all, we perform the miracles.

You can do anything you put your heart, mind and soul into. Far more than you can imagine. Be fearless. Do it.

Mr. Gandhi, you have been working fifteen hours a day for fifty years. Don't you think you should take a vacation?" Gandhi smiled and replied, "I am always on vacation.

I cannot remember back to a year in which I did not consider myself to be a writer, and the younger I was the bigger that capital 'W.