I'm not a collector. I don't like the toy cupboard syndrome that causes so many good cars to evaporate.

What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew.

There probably aren't a lot of actors my age who tap dance.

The older generation had greater respect for land than science. But we live in an age when science, more than soil, has become the provider of growth and abundance. Living just on the land creates loneliness in an age of globality.

One of my grandfathers, actually, having gone out there as a minister, decided he would better serve the people as a doctor. So at a very late age - at the age of 38 in fact - he changed course and decided to become a doctor.