"The nightingales are sobbing in The orchards of our mothers, And hearts that we broke long ago Have long been breaking others; Tears are round, the sea is deep: Roll them overboard and sleep."

“They change. They're different. There are no two alike, that's the miracle of it. But if they have something to teach the students. You can see them writing during the show.”

“One can succeed at almost anything for which he has enthusiasm.”

“Cultural variety is always worth striving for, but must never precede the declaration of human rights.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

“I really believe in the power of music - and I mean literally the power of musical tones - to rearrange the way you can think.”

“I do pity unlearned gentlemen on a rainy day.”

“I was something of a prankster. One time I put a ski mask on my head and used a fake gun on the school secretary so that I could get some of my friends out of detention.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

“Having the USDA design your food pyramid is like having Al Capone do your taxes.”

“Friendship, "the wine of life," should, like a well-stocked cellar, be continually renewed.”

Source : James Boswell, Samuel Johnson, Edmond Malone (1824). “The life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D., comprehending an account of his studies, and numerous works, in chronological order: a series of his epistolary correspondence and conversations with many eminent persons; and various original pieces of his composition, never before published; the whole exhibiting a view of literature and literary men in Great Britain, for near half a century during which he flourished”, p.261