The man who is fond of books is usually a man of lofty thought, and elevated opinions.

...education has always meant the initiation of the young into the social and spiritual inheritance of the community: in other words, education has meant the transmission of culture.

...the more widely we extend the range of education, the more necessary it is to provide some principle of cohesion to counterbalance the centrifugal tendencies of specialization and utilitarianism.

Happy is the people that is without history. And thrice is the people without sociology.

Culture was actually humanity’s attempt to extend the womb.

You might find it fade, but its just another shade....

The shortest route to wealth is the contempt of wealth.

I'm a generally optimistic person.

Fighting is life... Are you a person who gives up or are you a person who's going to fight?

Institutions do live on their history.

the moon rattles like a fragment of angry candy

Stay focused. Your start does not determine how you're going to finish.

Literature could be said to be a sort of disciplined technique for arousing certain emotions.

Listening. That's what music is about. You hear it. And I'd listen to it and something would move me one way or another; and I would try and play it.

You listen to a piece of music and it will remind you of something - it might make you happy, it might make you sad, but it is very emotive. And I think that Duran Duran have always understood that.