"You cannot go wrong by learning classical music because it trains the ear."

“I have had stalkers over the years. The police deal with it but it is very scary. One man kept turning up where we filmed 'Countdown in Leeds,' which was scary. It was sad as he'd been sectioned and thought I was talking to him through the TV.”

“It's the Peter Pan in me, I don't think I'll ever grow up.”

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

“Finance is a gun. Politics is knowing when to pull the trigger.”

Source : "Fictional character: Don Lucchesi". "The Godfather: Part III", www.imdb.com. 1990.

“I smile, now, thinking: we all like to think we are important enough to need psychiatrists”

“Life is rapid, art is slow, occasion coy, practice fallacious, and judgment partial.”

Source : Henry Fuseli (1831). “The Life and Writings of Henry Fuseli”, p.63

“I have experienced a lifetime of real moments, and many of them were happy moments.”

“Peace is non-resistance, complete acceptance, identification with all, everyone, everything.”

“Italy is a geographical expression.”

Source : Discussing the Italian question with Palmerston in 1847. 'Aus dem Nachlasse des Grafen Prokesch- Osten' (1881) vol. 2, p. 343; and Mèmoires, Documents, etc. de 'Metternich publiès par son fils' (1883) vol. 7, p. 415