Well, my deliberate opinion is - it's a jolly strange world.

Your own mind is a sacred enclosure into which nothing harmful can enter except by your permission.

Any change, even a change for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.

There can be no knowledge without emotion. We may be aware of a truth, yet until we have felt its force, it is not ours. To the cognition of the brain must be added the experience of the soul.

Its language is a language which the soul alone understands, but which the soul can never translate.

The best cure for worry, depression, melancholy, brooding, is to go deliberately forth and try to lift with one's sympathy the gloom of somebody else.

Worry is evidence of an ill-controlled brain; it is merely a stupid waste of time in unpleasantness.

It is easier to go down a hill than up, but the view is from the top.

The real Tragedy is the tragedy of the man who never in his life braces himself for his one supreme effort-he never stretches to his full capacity, never stands up to his full stature.

Of all the inhabitants of the inferno, none but Lucifer knows that hell is hell, and the secret function of purgatory is to make of heaven an effective reality.

Falsehood often lurks upon the tongue of him, who, by self-praise, seeks to enhance his value in the eyes of others.

Designer of information superhighways need to take the occasional stroll down memory lane.

To forget oneself is to be happy.

Someday, I plan to buy a house in Goa, do only one movie a year, and spend the rest of time painting, learning how to cook, cooking for friends, and doing yoga.

Suffering is overrated. It doesn't teach you anything.

The great questions are those an intelligent child asks and, getting no answers, stops asking.

At my age, I don’t need to be a sexy bundle of muscles, thank you very much.

Let everyone leave all the guns - British guns and Irish guns - outside the door.

Take care not to step on the foot of a learned idiot. His bite is incurable.

Don't follow the mind. Don't follow the body. Follow the Conscience. That is the main principle of this text. So we should follow our Conscience.

I've never really had any trouble coming up with ideas; they just grow, like weeds. The weeding is the hard part.