To be able to keep the promise I made to God, I think that keeps me going. No matter how much the money had been, I would have always fulfilled my promise, as that's the way I am.

My belief in a day of reckoning keeps me on the straight and narrow.

I had a very hard father. I had two sisters. He was soft on them and hard on me.

I borrowed 100 pounds and made the pact with God: Make me a millionaire - and you can have half of my money.

I don't like inherited wealth.

I was always made to work at a very early age. I finished school at 4 P.M. and by 5 P.M. I was working. It was seven days a week.

Stupid people do make me lose my temper and most people are stupid, fortunately for me. It's made it easier for me to make a living.

Don't make the mistake of treating your dogs like humans, or they'll treat you like dogs.

Idleness is a constant sin, and labor is a duty. Idleness is the devil's home for temptation and for unprofitable, distracting musings; while labor profit others and ourselves

My mother wanted to be president of the United States. She wanted to be the first woman president. She was born in 1924. Instead she had eight children.

For live you need a microphone for the snare and the high hat, the kick drum, a nice stereo overhead and one for the toms - you can get away with using four mikes.

If you are cast in a different mould to the majority, it is no merit of yours: Nature did it.

Love is so painful, how could you ever wish it on anybody? And love is so essential, how could you ever stand in its way?

When we get hung up on the non-essentials, the essentials have no opportunity to make a significant appearance.

We're all the sons of God, or children of the Is, or ideas of the Mind, or however else you want to say it.

Competence is no longer scarce.

You don't have to be sick to get better! You don't have to have a bad attitude to get a better one.