Never mind money; the gifts of time and skill call into being the richest marketplace in the world.

Success is not like a cake that needs to be divided. It's more like a heap of stones - a cairn. If someone is successful, they add a stone to the cairn. It gets very high and can be seen from all over the world. That's how I see it.

I'm getting better, happier, and nicer as I grow older, so I would be terrific in a couple of hundred years time.

I have always believed that life is too short for rows and disagreements. Even if I think I'm right, I would prefer to apologize and remain friends rather than win and be an enemy.

If you woke up each morning, and immediately dwelt on your ills, what sort of a day could you look forward to?

An English journalist called Michael Viney told me when I was 25, that I would write well if I cared a lot what I was writing about. That worked. I went home that day and wrote about parents not understanding their children as well as we teachers did, and it was published the very next week.

I've had a good life, full of more success and happiness than I ever expected.