"Books and teachers are always "right", and we learn only from them, not from any other resource in the room, such as our friends."

“I think the big lesson to the political class is stop listening so much to each other, and start listening to the people.”

“We all want to live a happy life and have a right to do so, whether through work or spiritual practice. I'm subject to destructive emotions like anger and jealousy the same as you, but we all have potential for good too. However, our existing education system is oriented towards material development; neglecting inner values. Consequently we lack a clear awareness of the inner values that are the basis of a happy life.”

“In short, they were gambling on their luck, and luck is not to be coerced.”

“It is only reasonable that our laws do not force our country to provide safe harbor to those individuals that are being sought out by their governments due to their terrorist ties.”

“I don't care about the Constitution! The Constitution isn't here; you're here. Don't be a pinhead.”

“What I like are films that take me seriously, that don't treat me as more stupid than I am.”

“The Puritans nobly fled from a land of despotism to a land of freedim, where they could not only enjoy their own religion, but could prevent everybody else from enjoyin his.”

Source : London Punch Letters, No. 5, 1866.

“Nothing pains some people more than having to think”