Don’t ever underestimate the importance of money. I know it’s often been said that money won’t make you happy and this is undeniably true, but everything else being equal, it’s a lovely thing to have around the house.

The first thing which I can record concerning myself is, that I was born. These are wonderful words. This life, to which neither time nor eternity can bring diminution - this everlasting living soul, began. My mind loses itself in these depths.

Be open minded, but not so open minded that your brains fall out.

I worked my way up from nothing to a state of extreme poverty.

My mother loved children - she would have given anything if I had been one.

Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana

Blood's not thicker than money.