The intuitive, the expressive, the un-measurable, the intensely personal have never found a satisfactory place in the curriculum, in assessment, in the publics esteem.

A belief is not a belief until you can visualize it, unless you can create a picture of it in your minds eye, especially if you have no doubts that reality can be - or is - possible.

If we remain wedded to the way education is currently provided we cannot imagine other ways. We need some imagination, some fantasy, some new ways of thinking - some magic in fact.

If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants.

Without courage, it doesn't matter how good the leader's intentions are.

People don't expect too much from literature. They just want to know they're not alone with being confused.

The Marxians love of democratic institutions was a stratagem only, a pious fraud for the deception of the masses. Within a socialist community there is no room left for freedom.

Even though I love fashion, I prefer people to fashion. Fashion is to make the person comfortable in her body, it’s not something very serious, you get to play.

I've never made up events, but I've always been a big exaggerator. It's written on my humorist license that I'm allowed to do that.

Be yourself, take control of your life.

It is not enough to take steps which may someday lead to a goal; each step must be itself a goal and a step likewise.

Opportunity knocks for every man, but you have to give a woman a ring.

I am a reflection of what I sing. Sometimes I have to get serious because the things Ive been through are serious.