To teach is to learn twice. About all some parents accomplish in life is to send a child to Harvard. The purpose of a liberal education is to make one's mind a pleasant place to spend one's leisure.

Words are like eyeglasses they blur everything that they do not make clear.

Monuments are the grappling-irons that bind one generation to another.

The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.

Without the spiritual world the material world is a disheartening enigma.

The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk.

A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.

We find little in a book but what we put there. But in great books, the mind finds room to put many things.

The evening of life brings with it its lamps.

He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet.

Close your eyes and you will see.

I want to stay healthy, keep fit, eat well, keep a low profile and be a good dad.

People push my buttons, so I'm going to react.

What do you think I'm a professor of? The little finger? (On offers of honorary doctorates.)

I still, by and large, make low-budget Australian films.

There's nothing trite about being consoled in a world that does everything in its power to deliver sorrow.

Please don't call me arrogant, but I'm European champion and I think I'm a special one.

Valor consists in the power of self recovery.

Ive been playing swing chords for a long time.

You can't have anything happening today within the petro-monarchies, is going to be too risky for the United States and the oil interests there.

Everybody has that little side of them they never really get to get out.