Be on the alert to recognize your prime at whatever time of your life it may occur. – Muriel Spark
To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupils soul. To Miss Mackay it is a putting in of something that is not there, and that is not what I call education. I call it intrusion. – Muriel Spark
When a noble life has prepared old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality. – Muriel Spark
It is impossible to persuade a man who does not disagree, but smiles. – Muriel Spark
Life expectancy in many parts of Africa can be something around the age of thirty five to thirty eight. I mean youre very fortunate if you live to that age. In fact when I went to Uganda for the first time one of the things that occurred to me was that I saw very few elderly people. – Annie Lennox