My children didn't have my advantages; I was born into abject poverty.

I think that [Barack] Obama was elected because young people are starting to get interested in their country and I think that's a very healthy thing.

My children didn't have my advantages; I was born into abject poverty.

Listen - pacemaker, crash, stroke. What does it mean? God doesn't want me now. That's all.

In order to achieve anything you must be brave enough to fail.

I'm concerned that the world is a mess. That's why when I wrote my last book, Let's Face It, I dedicated it to the younger generation because, let's face it, the world is in a mess. Right now, the young people will inherit that mess. I think we have to do everything we can.

I came from abject poverty. There was nowhere to go but up.