If I had girls to educate I would not have them learn both music and drawing.

Time's stern tide, with cold Oblivion's wave, Shall soon dissolve each fair, each fading charm.

Let me be content with being happy, without sighing that I am not distinguished.

A masculine education cannot spare from professional study and the necessary acquisition of languages, the time and attention which I have bestowed on the compositions of my countrymen.

Suffer not thy wrongs to shroud thy fate, But turn, my soul, to blessings which remain.

Though just biographical record will touch the failings of the good and the eminent with tenderness.

Advice is a form of Nostalgia

For a team to accomplish their goal, everybody’s got to give up a little bit of their individuality.

I don't think wood was discovered in Britain until the 1970's. That's when I discovered it anyway.

When I was 16, I made some little 35mm documentaries about the poor in London. I went round Notting Hill, which was a real slum in the 1950s, shooting film.

I feel a lot of life in me and a lot of creative energy and I think it's better suited somewhere it can run free.

Things work well when a group of people know each other, and things break down when it's a bunch of random people interacting.

It's always fun to walk down the street with or behind a really beautiful woman, for no reason other than to see how the world reacts to them.

I don't trust an organization that would make policy out of fear.

Though the terror of the sea gives to none security, in the secret of the shell. Self preserving we may dwell.

I have good looking kids. Thank goodness my wife cheats on me.