The first principle of my own philosophy is that wisdom is meant for anyone who wishes to reach for it. It is the servant of commoner and king alike and should never be regarded with awe.

Are you making life or is life making you?

I would say that 99 per cent of what my father has written about his own life is false.

If attacked on some vulnerable point by anyone or anything or any organization, always find or manufacture enough threat against them to cause them to sue for peace.

I have high hopes of smashing my name into history so violently that it will take a legendary form even if all books are destroyed.

Well I don't know that I'm okay any more than anyone else is okay, I lead a happy life and a very full one - I have a happy marriage and my kids are all cheerful, and no one is finding fault with me, personally.

When you can be your own best audience and when your applause is the best applause you know of, youre in good shape.