My father left his piano at the house when he left, and I wasn't allowed to play it when he was there because I wasn't as good as him. So when he left, I was determined to get as good as him, and I taught myself how to play music, and I just stuck with it, and I did it all the time.

I wish either my father or my mother, or indeed both of them, as they were in duty both equally bound to it, had minded what they were about when they begot me.

A son can bear with equanimity the loss of his father, but the loss of his inheritance may drive him to despair.

Marriage is a school itself. Also, having children. Becoming a father changed my whole life. It taught me as if by revelation.

A son can bear with equanimity the loss of his father, but the loss of his inheritance may drive him to despair.

Children today know more about sex than I or my father did.