Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands

No matter how thin you slice it, there will always be two sides.

To the young people I say, you are a gift to your communities and indeed the world. You are our hope and our future.

People think I'm a miserable sod but it's only because I get asked such bloody miserable questions.

Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment.

When the student is ready, the teacher will appear.

There is an eloquence in true enthusiasm.

For a moment, nothing happened. Then, after a second or so, nothing continued to happen.

In ballet a complicated story is impossible to tell... we can't dance synonyms.

The word 'good' has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man.

Dress shabbily and they remember the dress; dress impeccably and they remember the woman.

The secret of being a bore is to tell everything.

To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul.

You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you never had the courage to commit.

Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.

I have no idea. People who boast about their IQ are losers.

We need to keep hope alive and strive to do better.

Who the hell wants fourteen pairs of shoes when they go on holiday? I haven't had fourteen pairs in my life.

The Internet is becoming the town square for the global village of tomorrow.

But there is only one thing which gathers people into seditious commotion, and that is oppression

Where grief is fresh, any attempt to divert it only irritates.