If there is one thing I dislike, it is the man who tries to air his grievances when I wish to air mine.

A melancholy-looking man, he had the appearance of one who has searched for the leak in life's gas-pipe with a lighted candle.

I always advise people never to give advice.

She looked as if she had been poured into her clothes and had forgotten to say "when".

What ho!" I said. "What ho!" said Motty. "What ho! What ho!" "What ho! What ho! What ho!" After that it seemed rather difficult to go on with the conversation.

I could see that, if not actually disgruntled, he was far from being gruntled.

Everything in life that’s any fun, as somebody wisely observed, is either immoral, illegal or fattening.

He had the look of one who had drunk the cup of life and found a dead beetle at the bottom.

At the age of eleven or thereabouts women acquire a poise and an ability to handle difficult situations which a man, if he is lucky, manages to achieve somewhere in the later seventies.

There are moments, Jeeves, when one asks oneself, 'Do trousers matter?'" "The mood will pass, sir.

Red hair, sir, in my opinion, is dangerous.

It is a good rule in life never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them.

He had just about enough intelligence to open his mouth when he wanted to eat, but certainly no more.

The voice of Love seemed to call to me, but it was a wrong number.

And she's got brains enough for two, which is the exact quantity the girl who marries you will need.

There is no surer foundation for a beautiful friendship than a mutual taste in literature.

If the work is going well and it's something that has value with some meaning to it, it gives back a lot.

In a way, one gets stability from being able to order the rational mind.

Maybe the Dalai Lama is the only person who is totally honest, and even with him, he's skillful not to hurt anybody. He's skillful.

Meditation is such a more substantial reality than what we normally take to be reality.

My first encounter with Buddhist dharma would be in my early 20s. Like most young men, I was not particularly happy.

There is nothing real about film. Nothing. Even the light particles that project the film can't be proven to exist. Nothing is there.

Tibetan Buddhism had an enormous impact on me.

Western Buddhists in many ways are much serious Buddhists than Tibetans are.