"I didn't have anybody, really, no foundation in life, so I had to make my own way. Always, from the start, I had to go out in the world and become strong, to discover my mission in life."

"Sometimes you've got to let everything go -- purge yourself. If you are unhappy with anything . . . whatever is bringing you down, get rid of it. Because you'll find that when you're free, your true creativity, your true self comes out."

"The real power behind whatever success I have now was something I found within myself -- something that's in all of us, I think, a little piece of God just waiting to be discovered."

"I never said "Well, I don't have this and I don't have that." I said, I don't have this yet, but I'm going to get it."

I will never give in to old age until I become old. And I'm not old yet!