The most essential mental quality for a free people, whose liberty is to be progressive, permanent and on a large scale, is much stupidity.

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.

I remember our priceless moments when we were close together. But now i have felt it is painful to my soul if i have seen her presence of aura.

Your intuition is the pilot's seat of your soul. If you don't trust it, you'll keep missing the most important of destinations in life.

I’m sure I’d remember if we’d met. It doesn’t happen every day to witness perfection on Earth.

Without archives many stories of real people would be lost, and along with those stories, vital clues that allow us to reflect and interpret our lives today.

One would expect boredom to be a great yawning emotion, but it isn't, of course. It's a small niggling thing.

If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast.

I would rather do a project that I've invested so much time to, rather than try to get a part on another show.

Liberty of speech invites and provokes liberty to be used again, and so bringeth much to a man's knowledge.

I didn't want to go to sleep knowing I would just wake up in the morning.

If Martin Scorsese calls, I am available. And then there the ones, well, you can just run down the list - any of those Oscar-nominated films, they have amazing directors across the board.