I'm a great believer in everything at the right time. Go on a crazy spree if it's the right time to do it but choose your moment carefully and beware of impulse buying.

Being able to check your balance on the phone is the best invention ever.

I hate any kind of owing of anything.

Let the fame calm down first and then do something. I don't act on emotion, I don't spend on impulse.

You can't predict tomorrow. And because you can't predict tomorrow, you have to be realistic with what you have today. It doesn't mean don't enjoy yourself but enjoy yourself at the right time.

I've always been very sensible with money.

If you want something you have to wait.

I think money is pretty straightforward. Get some money in; pay off what you owe, the rest is yours.

The walls are the publishers of the poor.

With me being in my 40s, I knew who I was.

We can't afford more top-down economics. What we need are policies that will grow and strengthen the middle class.

We didn't understand irony yet in the '80s; we just kind of existed at face value, so there was no nerd cool yet because the digital revolution was still in its infancy.

The government is fully capable of delivering services. Even complex services.

I am perpetually bringing or losing babies, both very dreadful operations to me, and which tear mind and body both in pieces very cruelly.

MBAs know everything but understand nothing.

The greatest thing about having a child is putting yourself second in your own life. It's a massive gift to be able to say you're not the most important person to yourself.

To succeed you have to be innovative.

You cannot force growth of human life and civilization, any more than you can force these slow-growing trees. That is the economy of Almighty God, that all good growth is slow growth.