Dad bought me a toy drum one Christmas, and I eventually destroyed it. I wanted a real drum and he bought me a snare drum. Dad continued to buy me one drum after the other.

Lucy took care of me on the set, and made sure that none of the crew cussed around me. She also had birthday parties for me and made sure that they were well attended.

I would rather have played a character like Opie than Little Ricky.

George Reeves was really Superman in my eyes. For him to come on the set and be there was a treat for me.

I liked Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer, and that is the kind of character that I would like to have played. That would have been more in tune with who I really was.

Dad bought me a toy drum one Christmas and I eventually destroyed it. I wanted a real drum and he bought me a snare drum. Dad continued to buy me one drum after the other.

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My talent for playing the drums was a gift from God.

When someone tells me "no, " it doesn't mean I can't do it, it simply means I can't do it with them.

The hidden economy [is] fed not by money and greed but by love, pure and simple. You see the best and truly golden opportunities do not arise to benefit oneself, but in order to benefit others.

The highest morality may prove also to be the highest wisdom when the half-told story comes to be finished.

My heart is in my/ pocket. It is poems by Pierre Reverdy.

How do we find a way out? By realizing that there's no place to go, that there's no way out, that there's no way in. All that exists is the Self.

True education is a kind of never-ending story . . .

Got seven women on my mind. Four that want to own me, two that want to stone me, and one says she's a friend of mine.

We read five words on the first page of a really good novel and we begin to forget that we are reading printed words on a page; we begin to see images.

Normally I didn’t see a great deal. I didn’t hear a great deal either. I didn’t pay attention. Strictly speaking I wasn’t there. Strictly speaking I believe I’ve never been anywhere.

Our audacity to rise from our losses makes Nigeria the number one footballing nation in Africa!