Most of the worst errors I made in my life came from forgetting to act small.

Fear not. For fear itself is fed by fear, and all fears pass. Did no one tell you so? Come take my hand, my friend, and we will peer into this fear's abyss. And jump! And know.

As with the onset of sudden celebrity, for the newly rich, the world often becomes a darker, narrower, less generous place; a paradox that elicits scant sympathy, but is nonetheless true.

I cannot abide being bored.

Say to yourself: The world is full of money. Some of it has my name on it. All I have to do is collect it.

America, ladies and gentlemen, has done more for me financially than Britain ever has, or ever could have done.

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