In the area we're discussing leadership begins on Madison Avenue on the desks and in the offices of people who spend hundreds of millions of dollars buying what will get them ratings.

I think the greater responsibility in terms of morality is where leadership begins.

In other words knowledge of the external world begins with an immediate utilisation of things whereas knowledge of self is stopped by this purely practical and utilitarian contact.

Although modesty is natural to man it is not natural to children. Modesty only begins with the knowledge of evil.

Where knowledge ends religion begins.

All our knowledge begins with the senses proceeds then to the understanding and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.

Emotional intelligence begins to develop in the earliest years. All the small exchanges children have with their parents teachers and with each other carry emotional messages.

We forget that what matters begins with the imagination.

Vulgarity begins when imagination succumbs to the explicit.

An opera begins long before the curtain goes up and ends long after it has come down. It starts in my imagination it becomes my life and it stays part of my life long after I've left the opera house.