“I was forced to live far beyond my years when just a child, now I have...” — Mary Pickford Quote

I was forced to live far beyond my years when just a child, now I have reversed the order and I intend to remain young indefinitely.

You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing that we call 'failure' is not the falling down, but the staying down.

Adding sound to movies would be like putting lipstick on the Venus de Milo.

The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power.

One of the great penalties those of us who live our lives in full view of the public must pay is the loss of that most cherished birthright of man's, privacy.

If we celebrate Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday at a time of presidential inaugurals, this is thanks to Ronald Reagan who created the holiday, and not to the Democratic Congress of the Carter years, which rejected it.

All my grandchildren bake. On a Saturday, Annabel's boys, Louis and Toby, always bake. Louis makes a chocolate cake, Toby makes banana or lemon drizzle. They're 12 and 10, and they can do it totally on their own. My son's twin girls, Abby and Grace, are 14; they make birthday cakes and like to do it on their own with Mum out of the way.

Ever since I was a little lad, the sun has seemed to shine during my birthday weekend.

I'm not a big birthday guy; I never have been.