For me, compatibility is a sense of humour, being able to laugh together; that is very important.

There is one sure way of telling when politicians aren't telling the truth - their lips move.

Every woman feels she is too old and has missed the boat.

As we have more women in power, so the plays and the TV dramas are reflecting what's happening.

When I was little I always thought I was marked out, special, on the verge of something momentous. I used to tingle with anticipation.

I don't think, until you've actually lost somebody you really love, that you can go through that door that allows you to be grown-up.

The gym is where I get my chill-out time. I try to go six days a week, but when I'm working, that goes down to about three.

I think you have to relax about aging. What else can you do?

I did try fillers once. Don't ever have fillers because when your cheekbones are high, it's chipmunk time.

So many roles for women demand that you make the audience fall in love with you or sympathise with you.

I hope to start enjoying flirting again when I'm 70, like my mother did.

Always learn poems by heart. They have to become the marrow in your bones. Like fluoride in the water, they'll make your soul impervious to the world's soft decay.

Nature is one of the most underutilized treasures in life. It has the power to unburden hearts and reconnect to that inner place of peace.

One of the effects of the gospel going deeper into our souls is that it frees our fingers to loosen their grasp on our goods.

My idea of a real treat is Magic Mountain without standing in line.

We must all face the fact that in a single lifetime we lead several simultaneous lives; our intention should be to make them reinforce one another instead of colliding.

What we agree with leaves us inactive, but contradiction makes us productive.

I would have loved to have met Marilyn Monroe and have dinner with her.

No matter how tired or wretched I am, a pussycat sitting in a doorway can divert my mind.

The world acquires value only through its extremes and endures only through moderation; extremists make the world great, the moderates give it stability.

Throughout its history, Islam has borrowed and adapted from other civilizations, both ancient and modern.