"I'll never forget one morning I walked in and I had a hell of a bruise - it had been a difficult night the night before - and a client said to me, 'Good God, Vidal, what happened to your face?' And I said, 'Oh, nothing, madam, I just fell over a hairpin.'"

"I got a telegraph from my mother who said that my step-father had had a heart attack, come home and earn a living. So I went back to England and the only thing I knew to earn any cash was through hairdressing."

"Realizing our society as it is, without theology dogmatically telling us how we should react to it, and being humane toward that society, that is all that we're sure of."

"I was all about my thoughts, my work, my inspiration. I was always in hair."

"There is no end to education. It is not that you read a book, pass an examination, and finish with education. The whole of life, from the moment you are born to the moment you die, is a process of learning."

"Education, particularly higher education, will take Africa into the mainstream of globalization."

"Outright bans on plastic bags may not be the best solution, but education and incentives to get people to stop using them are necessary."

"Through first-class education, a generation marches down the long uncertain road of the future with confidence."