Attractive Etonians who go straight onto the Stock Exchange missing University on their fathers advice: the raw material of the great bores.

The dust of exploded beliefs may make a fine sunset.

To change an opinion without a mental process is the mark of the uneducated.

Never assume that habitual silence means ability in reserve.

The cat which isn't let out of the bag often becomes a skeleton in the cupboard.

{Summertime she speaks of winter, she eats ham, but speaks of beef, got a good man but, flirts with another. She might as well go to hell, cause she ain't gonna be happy in heaven either!}

Creativity is as important now in education as literacy and we should treat it with the same status.

There are defining moments in one's life when you learn about yourself, and you deposit that knowledge in the experience account, so you can draw on it at some later date.

Most haystacks do not even have a needle.

The falsest of all philosophies is that which, under the pretext of delivering men from the embarrassment of their passions, counsels idleness and the abandonment and neglect of themselves.

The frustration of being marginalized often gets misdirected at the most visible members of one's own community, because they are more accessible than the real agents of marginalization.

My music isn't anything but me. It has jazz in it, and rock'n'roll, and it has an urgency to it.

Dean: If there is a greater power, why is it he can't get you a new sweater? Jamie: Because, he's too busy looking for your brain.

Word which the finger of God has written on the brow of every man — hope!

Use "entropy" and you can never lose a debate, von Neumann told Shannon - because no one really knows what "entropy" is.