What is it to enjoy life? Sit at the beach? No. What it is is that you have to do something, you have be productive, make a contribution to the society, to the family, to yourself.

The philosophy I shared... was one of ambition - ambition to succeed, ambition to grow, ambition to move forward - backed up by hard work.

For every mountain there is another one. The big question is if you reach the top of the mountain, what then? What do you do then? I suppose you die.

Invincible is never how I felt, but optimistic... yes.

I learned to value the small transactions as well as the large.

I don't work for nothing. I'm entitled to get paid.

From morning when I wake up until I go to sleep, I am working. I go to bed and I want to switch off, but the brain doesn't switch off.

Are you suggesting coconuts migrate?

An incomplete fulfillment of a sweet dream can slowly turn it caustic.

You can spit on a rose, but it's still a rose.

The first books I was interested in were all about baseball. But I can't think of one single book that changed my life in any way.

Everywhere there is apathy. Nobody cares whether that which is preached is true or false. A sermon is a sermon whatever the subject; only, the shorter it is, the better.

Toward the end of his life, one can sense that he was no longer thinking his way into the minds of others, causing them to speak on his behalf, but that he was now speaking for himself.

Whenever I'm in Glasgow I go and stand outside the front of the house I grew up in, which is in Mount Vernon.

Don't take life too seriously. Have fun in your life. And, never forget my mantra - love and laughter supersede all!

The church has no authority to preach of inclusivity if we fear altering the look of our church by bringing in the poor.

Only you yourself can be your liberator!