The greatest please in life is doing what people say you cannot do.

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.

Violent death erase[s] more than the semblance of life.

It is not until you learn to look at yourself, through the truth of who you are, that you can look at someone else.

My parents armed me with an amazing sense of humor, and it's what you need when, well, it's what anyone needs in this world.

The U.S. routinely ranks lower than other countries in health outcomes such as infant mortality.

It's certainly difficult to balance marketing a film and putting it out there to everybody with wanting to keep it fresh for the audience.

One can experience loneliness in two ways: by feeling lonely in the world or by feeling the loneliness of the world.

Knicks and dull edges are abominations, so use knives and hatchets for nothing but they were made for.

As a kid, I was a big comic fan and I liked foreign comics as well.

the backlash convinced the public that women's 'liberation' was the true contemporary American scourge - the source of an endless laundry list of personal, social, and economic problems.