I like to look put together without trying too hard. I don't want to look as if God's made another rainbow - I prefer muted, autumnal colours, like most fading redheads.

Sad old blokes, I'm told, now dream of me with a whip in hand.

My accountant regularly asks to take me to lunch. I always say I can't afford it.

Mirror, mirror on the wall, whos the dumbest of you all?

Every mother and daughter should make time for a trip together. It's good for the soul.

I am dating, but it is hard to find someone quick enough and funny enough. I am quite demanding.

I don't despise, because no-one should live rent-free inside your head.

Being rich and miserable has got to be better than poor and unhappy.

We mothers of grown-up daughters tend to view them with a mixture of love, exasperation, irritation and awe.

My best business decision is always to have been unembarrassed about negotiating a decent deal. Not being coy or shy about money is second nature to me.

I come from a family of traders; my grandmother and my mother were very good at making money.

Yes! Yes! There's the attitude. Where was that girl during the race? Off getting sushi?

A success is anyone who is doing deliberately a pre-determined job, because that's what he decided to do deliberately. But only one out of twenty does that.

Sometimes you have to leave the world in order to learn how to live in it. Thoreau shunned society, went to the woods, and came back with a new understanding of life.

Equal treatment for children in unequal situations is not justice.

He had gone to the higher Sierras... [about Ralph Waldo Emerson's death]

Punishment is the last and the least effective instrument in the hands of the legislator for the prevention of crime.

It was a somber place, haunted by old jokes and lost laughter. Life, as I discovered, holds no more wretched occupation than trying to make the English laugh.

We can change our whole life and the attitude of people around us simply by changing ourselves.

When I was 10, 11, 12 years old, I would pretend to be on the radio. I bought a mixer and these big, ugly headphones and I would literally broadcast the cassette tapes in my bedroom.

It's up to couples, to individuals, to have a trust between each other.