I was born two months early, and everyone had given up on me. But my mother insisted on my life.

I learned to hear silence. That's the kind of life I lived: simple. I learned to see things in people around me, in my mom, dad, brothers and sisters.

If I'm remembered for having done a few good things and if my presence here has sparked some good energies, that's plenty.

I'd seen my father. He was a poor man, and I watched him do astonishing things.

If you apply reason and logic to this career of mine, you're not going to get very far. You simply won't.

If the image one holds of one's self contains elements that don't square with reality, one is best advised to let go of them, however difficult that may be.

I wouldn't change a single thing, because one change alters every moment that follows it.