I went to watch my father at Silverstone in the early 1950s and I've still got the car he was in.

Yeah I left Idaho at 17. You know I graduated high school a year early and just you know the typical story packed up my car and moved out.

Like all soul singers I grew up singing in church but sometimes I would leave early and sit in the car listening to gospel band The Blind Boys of Alabama. Hearing their lead singer Clarence made me connect the idea of church and show business and see how I could make a career singing music that stirred the soul.

So I remember when I was a kid I was waiting for my mom to come home when she was working late and you know I was like 'Oh my God what happened to her? Is she OK? Did something happen to her getting in the car?' I was a little kid. But those are actually early onsets of anxiety.

A muscle is like a car. If you want it to run well early in the morning you have to warm it up.

I was already on pole then by half a second and then one second and I just kept going. Suddenly I was nearly two seconds faster than anybody else including my team mate with the same car.

I learned from Mr. Wrigley early in my career that loyalty wins and it creates friendships. I saw it work for him in his business.

The stores and the things like that the business side of things came out at the point when I'd say probably in the early '70s it looked like the year of the singer-songwriter was over 'cause music changed in our time and the spotlight was out.

I think early on I knew what I was going to do and it was based a lot on familiarity but it was also because I didn't have a lot of skills. There was nothing I wanted t be. I didn't want to be a doctor. I wanted to be in show business.

As an actress emotions are my business my stock-in-trade. As such I've dealt with them nearly all my life.

Not since the digital revolution in the early '90s has technology placed such a comprehensive burden on business employees and individuals to reinvent their business plans services and products and themselves to keep pace with the changing marketplace.

Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance but to do what lies clearly at hand.

It is clearly better that property should be private but the use of it common and the special business of the legislator is to create in men this benevolent disposition.

The most important quality in a leader is that of being acknowledged as such. All leaders whose fitness is questioned are clearly lacking in force.

My ace in the hole as a human being used to be my capacity for remembering birthdays. I worked at it. Whenever I made a new friend I made a point of finding out his or her birthday early on and I would record it in my Filofax calendar.

I wrapped my Christmas presents early this year but I used the wrong paper. See the paper I used said 'Happy Birthday' on it. I didn't want to waste it so I just wrote 'Jesus' on it.

The compensation of a very early success is a conviction that life is a romantic matter. In the best sense one stays young.

It's best to have failure happen early in life. It wakes up the Phoenix bird in you so you rise from the ashes.

Work hard stay positive and get up early. It's the best part of the day.

Nearly all the best things that came to me in life have been unexpected unplanned by me.

I have been overcome by the beauty and richness of our life together those early mornings setting out those evenings gleaming with rivers and lakes below us still holding the last light.

It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength.

My attitude towards drawing is not necessarily about drawing. It's about making the best kind of image I can make it's about talking as clearly as I can.

Athletic competition clearly defines the unique power of our attitude.