I have one talent, and that's figuring out what people want about two minutes before they know it themselves.

Good ideas are like Nike sports shoes. They may facilitate success for an athlete who possesses them, but on their own they are nothing but an overpriced pair of sneakers. Sports shoes don't win races. Athletes do.

Ideas don't make you rich. The correct execution of ideas does.

I have been portrayed by actors in three television documentaries, two plays, one musical and a film. It's no fun watching yourself being traduced and imitated by an actor.

Without self belief nothing can be accomplished. With it, nothing is impossible.

I hear poets complaining: 'We face what our forebears did not face. We face TV. We face radio. We face this and that.'

Few things in life are certain except death and being taxed.