I was in the band as a boy and was taught music and learned to compose.

As you get older three things happen. The first is your memory goes, and I can't remember the other two.

Such is life and life is such and after all it isn't much. First a cradle. Then a hearse. It might have been better, but it could have been worse.

I owe everything to the army.

You know I've got a chum, a smashing mate, he's got a dog with no legs, and he calls it a cigarette. It's true, yeah, because at nighttime he has to take it out for a drag.

It was absolutely thrilling to meet Laurel and Hardy, they were so nice.

But no, I've just been very lucky. But I've worked hard, and the harder you work, the luckier you seem to get.

I've got one idea I want to do for a film and you know I just enjoy myself doing bits and pieces.

I was born in very sorry circumstances. Both of my parents were very sorry

All my boyhood, all I ever wanted was to be loved.

My comedy is for children from three to 93. You do need a slightly childish sense of humour and if you haven't got that, it's very sad.

We too should make ourselves empty, that the great soul of the universe may fill us with its breath.

True wealth isn't measured by what you have making you happy, true wealth is measured by being happy with what you have.

Confidence is a reduction of your own interest in whether others are thinking about you and if so, what they're thinking.

It's a disgrace that we have millions of people who are uninsured.

You are a human with one life and it is up to you to make it the best life you can.

If you write thrillers or mysteries or horror fiction or quote-unquote speculative fiction, men might read you, and the 'Times' might notice you.

I train for one-and-a-half hours every day in order to keep my energy level high.

The only thing you must never speak of is your happiness.

It is never too late to learn what is always necessary to know.

Where duty is plain delay is both foolish and hazardous; where it is not, delay may be both wisdom and safety.