If you can't control your own emotions, you're forced to control other people's behaviour. That's why the touchiest, most oversensitive and easily up… - John Cleese

The one thing I remember about Christmas was that my father used to take me out in a boat about ten miles offshore on Christmas Day, and I used to have to swim back. Extraordinary. It was a ritual.
Mind you, that wasn't the hard part. The difficult bit was getting out of the sack.

When you get to my age, and I'm 66 now, you realize that the world is a madhouse and that most people are operating in fantasy anyway. So once you realise that, it doesn't bother you much.

Because these people are operating at a very very low level of mental health, they are incapable of understanding the teaching.