I've been lucky enough to travel widely. When you're based in Europe, it's very easy to go to Madrid or Budapest for the weekend. I also lived in Italy for ten years and now live in Ireland.

It's a funny things about human nature. Nobody ever wonders why they've got a healthy brother or a perfect kiddie. Anything goes wrong, though, we soon start why, oh why...

In the Seventies, my children played in the street, read politically incorrect stories, ate home-cooked food and occasional junk and, yes, were sometimes smacked.

I'm thankful my parents obliged me to live with the unvarnished truth: I might not have been a looker, but I was a better speller than the prettiest girl in my class, and I was funnier, too.

I am no longer accepting the things I cannot change. I am changing the things I cannot accept.

To articulate what is past does not mean to recognize “how it really was.” It means to take control of a memory, as it flashes in a moment of danger.

Take the risk! You will find the right road.

Play keeps us vital and alive. It gives us an enthusiasm for life that is irreplaceable. Without it life just doesn't taste good.

All issues are women's issues - and there are several that are just women's business.

Early in my career, I got roles that demanded that I be fit to carry off the angry young man look. Of course, I'm a fitness freak, and that's something I picked up from my dad.

[On culture] It's living the core values when you hire; when you write an email; when you are working on a project; when you are walking in the hall.

Some have greatness thrust upon them, but not lately.

I always felt that I was as good as the next person, and I didn't care what they had.

So if we approach church membership from the perspective of entitlement, we have it upside down. You always ask first what you can do for your church.