"When I’m home I’m very much hands on and like to be involved in the children’s sport and music."

“Advocates of dumbing down should note the wonderfully perverse fact that 'University Challenge' and 'Mastermind' were watched by millions who could hardly even understand the questions, let alone ***** the answers. Maybe they just liked to watch smart people sweating.”

“It is the message, not the man, which is important to the Sufis.”

“I love how much dance is sneaking its way back into society.”

Source : Source: wwd.com

“Distinction is the consequence, never the object of a great mind.”

Source : Washington Allston (1850). “Lectures on Art, and Poems”, p.167

“I have to experience all the ghastly, bottomless depths for life for myself; it's for that reason that I went to war, and for that reason I volunteered.”

“I remember eating in school in the years after the Second World War. Most of my friends had miserable portions of Spam with an inedible, glutinous pudding served in containers we called 'coffins.' As a vegetarian, I had a lump of loathsome cheese and some bread.”

“The Federal Bureau of Investigation has been requested to assist in the investigation of reported sightings of flying disks...”

“Women are called upon to defend every bit of progress we have made against particularly virulent attack. But we must also hold out a vision, put forth a positive agenda of what women need and want and then move forward toward that dream.”