Judging by the vast amount of cookbooks printed and sold in the United States one would think the American woman a fanatical cook. She isn't.

I dress for the image. Not for myself, not for the public, not for fashion, not for men.

Careful grooming may take twenty years off a woman's age, but you can't fool a flight of stairs.

Being in the depths of sadness is just as important an experience as being exuberantly happy.

It's the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter.

Champagne makes you feel like it's Sunday and better days are just around the corner.

Glamour is assurance. It is a kind of knowing that you are all right in every way, mentally and physically and in appearance, and that, whatever the occasion or the situation, you are equal to it.

You can't live without illusions, even if you must fight for them.

Most women set out to try to change a man, and when they have changed him they do not like him.

To lose your prejudices you must travel.

In Europe, it doesn't matter if you're a man or a woman - we make love with anyone we find attractive.

No matter how we choose to live, we both die at the end.

I am familiar with the phrase, ‘needle in a haystack’ and I think I understand its meaning more than I wish to.

Although children are only 24 percent of the population, they're 100 percent of our future and we cannot afford to provide any child with a substandard education.

The process of developing superior strategies is part planning, part trail and error, until you hit upon something that works.

I am a proud participant of the Spencer Tracy School of Acting: Know your lines, don't bump into the furniture.

In my time as Archbishop of Canterbury I've seen a growing sense of unity and mission.

A leader these days needs to be a host - one who convenes diversity; who convenes all viewpoints in creative processes where our mutual intelligence can come forth.

We need a greening of globalisation.

Working out what it would take to program goodness into a robot shows not only how much machinery it takes to be good but how slippery the concept of goodness is to start with.