I am good at down grading - I have found I can live the same lifestyle in a two-bedroom apartment as in a five-bedroom house.

The ideal man doesn't exist. A husband is easier to find.

I would make a poor vegetarian because I adore meat.

I was so beautiful but I didn't realise it for years. I saw pictures of myself and even I was stunned.

I'm very organised these days, and I keep my life in my handbag, like most women.

I am as far from a hypochondriac as you could ever be.

I met Peter Sellers when I was 21 and we got married ten days later. He was not right mentally, but I hung in there for four years before I left.

I spend hours mowing the lawn in absolutely straight lines on my tractor. If it's not right, I do it again.

I used to collect vintage clothing - exquisite lace dresses, embroidered shawls and ornate jewelry - but that's just not me any more.

I say I don't sleep with married men, but what I mean is that I don't sleep with happily married men.

I listen to my body, I give it things it wants and I eliminate things it doesn't want.

I’m not in this world to live up to your expectations and you’re not in this world to live up to mine.

After I am dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one.

I must choose to cease from suffering or to cease from loving.

Taking what is, then making it into what it can be through the power of creation that we all possess.

To restore America's competitiveness, we must recruit a new generation of science and technology leaders by investing in diversity.

Since I was 20 years old, I've been a kind of corporation. I'd wake up in the morning and my job was to be 'Bonnie Raitt' in capital letters.

The light of the understanding, humility kindleth and pride covereth.

A free society, to be truly worthy of that name, owes healthy, competent individuals the right to end their lives on their own terms.

The informed, unmanaged question. That's the most dangerous thing at a press conference anywhere.

Consciously paying more for a stock than its calculated value - in the hope that it can soon be sold for a still-higher price - should be labelled speculation