What you think is the point is not the point at all but only the beginning of the sharpness.

A wise old owl once lived in a wood, the more he heard the less he said, the less he said the more he heard, let's emulate that wise old bird.

The first beginnings of wisdom...is to ask questions but never to answer any.

When things go wrong and will not come right, Though you do the best you can, When life looks black as the hour of night, A PINT OF PLAIN IS YOUR ONLY MAN.

The majority of the members of the Irish parliament are professional politicians, in the sense that otherwise they would not be given jobs minding mice at crossroads.

When money's tight and is hard to get And your horse has also ran, When all you have is a heap of debt A PINT OF PLAIN IS YOUR ONLY MAN.

Rome wasn't built in A.D.

Your talk," I said, "is surely the handiwork of wisdom because not one word of it do I understand.

Another day gone and no jokes.

Descartes spent far too much time in bed subject to the persistent hallucination that he was thinking. You are not free from a similar disorder.

Strange enlightenments are vouchsafed to those who seek the higher places.

I’m a creature of the night.” Slitted eyes peered at her suspiciously. “Good God, you’re not a morning person, are you?

Without going out of my door I can know all things on Earth.

I wanted to improve the suburban office building; to create a great urban space in a suburban environment with all that implies about interaction, collaboration and creativity.

You're only as good as the people you have around you.

People say that I'm always late, but that's a myth

I will not be influenced, governed, or controlled, in my temporal interests by any ecclesiastical authority or pretended revelation whatever, contrary to my own judgment.

If women are the key to Africa's future - and I believe they are - we must figure out how to take away the barriers to their participation.

When Liza Minelli was a child, she used to sit on my lap and call me Uncle Sammy.

To protest, I stood in the place of a waste receptacle and opened my mouth. That's how I lost my virginity *laughs*

The TV weatherman has always been one of the best, most secure jobs. They change anchors, they change the set, producers come and go. But the weather person hangs on forever!