"When you eliminate the impossible, the only thing left no matter how imporbable must be the truth" S.Holmes

"Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber" Plato

"Some falls serve so we can rise up happier" W. Shakespeare

"Parents and schools should place great emphasis on the idea that it is all right to be different. Racism and all the other 'isms' grow from primitive tribalism, the instinctive hostility against those of another tribe, race, religion, nationality, class or whatever. You are a lucky child if your parents taught you to accept diversity." Roger Ebert

"Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary." Cecil Beaton