Any misfortune involving our kids. Also, I have recurring nightmares that involve being chased by people or being attacked by scary animals.

Dying before my children are adults.

To let fear overcome my life. We’re not gonna let that happen because love is always greater than fear.

Instead, I am badly oppressed by a gnawing sense of waste. I had real plans for my next decade and felt I’d worked hard enough to earn it. Will I really not live to see my children married? To watch the World Trade Center rise again? To read—if not indeed write—the obituaries of elderly villains like Henry Kissinger and Joseph Ratzinger? But I understand this sort of non-thinking for what it is: sentimentality and self-pity.

In the Sultan of Brunei’s will.

Pleasure is a glass of champagne, happiness is when you are living your values. I get up each morning and I’m excited by the day, and I have good health. This is the happiest that I’ve ever been.

I was a Harrods store detective for a day. I was so bad at it, one of the other detectives thought I looked suspicious and reported me.

To have been one of the people who brought hypnotherapy to the world.

“Oh, he’s all about money.” I’ve never charged anyone in all the years I’ve been doing one-to-one work. That’s my gift to the world.

People mistaking my kindness for weakness and stealing from me.