"My father upon the Abbey stage, before..." - Quote by William Butler Yeats

“Education is not about filling a pail, it's about lighting a fire.”

“All empty souls tend to extreme opinion. It is only in those who have built up a rich world of memories and habits of thought that extreme opinions affront the sense of probability. Propositions, for instance, which set all the truth upon one side can only enter rich minds to dislocate and strain, if they can enter at all, and sooner or later the mind expels them by instinct.”

“Imagining in excited reverie That the future years had come, Dancing to a frenzied drum, Out of the murderous innocence of the sea.”

“I get a lot of return business. I think it's all those years I put in traveling around the country; people saw me before and had a good time so they want to see me again.”

“When your image improves, your performance improves.”

“I've conducted the Boston Pops! Imagine that! Me! Maya Angelou! I've sang and danced at La Scala!”

“Hoping to fashion a mirror, the lover doth polish the face of his beloved until he produces a skull.”

“As you cannot do what you want, Want what you can do”

“Things have their laws as well as men, and things refuse to be trifled with.”