Even when I was in my 20s and at my most beautiful, I was never obsessed with my looks. I didn't dye my hair or wear make-up.

Buddhism teaches you to embrace change.

Real beauty is created when you are feeling good inside, whether that means being healthy, feeling confident or just wearing your favorite scent.

Being happy in your skin that's what it's all about.

Being angry is like picking up a knife with no handle: it is self-harming.

It is difficult to age because society won't let you. People expect you to look how you did at the height of your fame.

Sometimes the more you think about an outfit the worse it gets.

I looked at my daughter's face and thought, it's lovely to be beautiful but better to be healthy.

I was entirely natural and in many ways I have the same attitude now. I don't mourn the loss of my youth because I believe you should enjoy what you have while you have it.

Perfect devices: doctors, ghosts and crows. We can do things other characters can't, like eat sorrow, un-birth secrets and have theatrical battles with language and God.

The fastest and easiest way to accomplish any task is to do it with minimum breaks and pauses.

Never fall in love with someone that won't fight for you because when the real battles begin they won't pull your heart to safety, but they will their own.

Once I accomplish one thing and I'm satisfied, I try something else. I may be 50 and doing something totally outside of music and acting. Maybe I'll become a kindergarten teacher.

I would say to young entrepreneurs and budding philanthropists - are you giving to feel good or do good?

I want London to be a competitive, dynamic place to come to work.

You will fear the darkness only to the extent that you yourself are not providing light.

If I had not been discriminated against or had not suffered persecution, I would never have received the Nobel Prize.

There is seldom a difficulty with religion where there is friendship.

We are aching to come together and I think it has little to do with liberal or conservative discourse. I think it has to do with increasing disconnection with what is real and soul-serving.