"Don't let schooling interfere with your education."

“You're only two years older than me, darling. Where have you been all my life?”

Source : "Nostalgic night for Academy Awards". "PM" with Mark Colvin, www.abc.net.au. February 27, 2012.

“The only thing that keeps me alive is the hope of dying young.”

“My table is now brightly, now dimly lighted. Its temperature varies. It may receive an ink stain. One of its legs may be broken. It may be repaired, polished, and replaced part by part. But, for me, it remains the table at which I daily write.”

Source : Ernst Mach (1959). “The Analysis of Sensations: And the Relation of the Physical to the Psychical”

“When I lost the use of my hi-hat and bass drum legs, I became basically a singer. I was a drummer who did a bit of singing, and then I became a singer who did a bit of percussion.”

“Beauty has wings, and too hastily flies, and love, unrewarded, soon sickens and dies.”

“I think our children will be living on floating cities, and they will look back on the 20th Century, when people lived in primitive governments founded in previous centuries, and they will be living on modular, sustainable, floating cities that we can't imagine now, that are based on the voluntary choice of citizens. I think we will have a marvellous world in the 21st Century.”

Source : Source: www.abc.net.au

“Literacy is much more than an educational priority - it is the ultimate investment in the future and the first step towards all the new forms of literacy required in the twenty-first century. We wish to see a century where every child is able to read and to use this skill to gain autonomy.”

“For observing nature, the best pace is a snail's pace.”

Source : Edwin Way Teale (1987). “Circle of the seasons: the journal of a naturalist's year”, Olympic Marketing Corp