We in the House of Lords are never in touch with public opinion. That makes us a civilised body.

The best way to appreciate your job is to imagine yourself without one.

Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.

Always forgive your enemies nothing annoys them so much.

It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.

Everyone may not be good, but there's always something good in everyone. Never judge anyone shortly because every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.

Be yourself; everyone else is taken.

Women are made to be loved, not understood.

Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.

I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.

The worldly vision is filled with infinite infatuations and attachments and no one can escape from it

The problems with lies is they start to pile up, one on top of another, until it's hard to find your way out from under the heap.

Then he said in his most excellent Mick impression, "Your powers are useless against Ninja Lords, O great zombie hunter! Surrender or feel the sting of the shuriken!

I hang around shepherds because I can't talk to sheep.

The clearest sign of wisdom is continued cheerfulness.

I think that the proposed constitution is one of the European legal documents with the strongest social dimension I have seen since I began following European issues.

In this society these days, women are widely accepted in all kinds of cross-gender areas. So yeah, it's time!

The end of the rope stops in the palm of God.

The birthright of man ... is such a degree of liberty, civil and religious, as is compatible with the liberty of every other individual with whom he is united in a social compact.

I don't see anything wrong with telling someone that you are selfish with their love and that you can't stand sharing them with anyone else.