"The world is populated in the main by people who should not exist."

"If you can't appreciate what you've got, then you had better get what you can appreciate."

"I never resist temptation because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me."

"A learned man is an idler who kills time with study. Beware of his false knowledge: it is more dangerous than ignorance."

"All my life, affection has been showered upon me, and every forward step I have made has been taken in spite of it."

"Martyrdom... is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability."

"When a jar is broken, the space that was inside Merges into the space outside. In the same way, my mind has merged in God; To me, there appears no duality. Avadhuta Gita"

"Chastity: the most unnatural of the sexual perversions."

"I feel sorry for people who do not drink. When they wake up in the morning it is as good as they are going to feel all day."

"What we should have fought for was representation without taxation."

"In certain trying circumstances, urgent circumstances, desperate circumstances, profanity furnishes a relief denied even to prayer."

"Architecture is the art of how to waste space."