Most social problems could be helped or prevented if people had more money and practical advice.

Will you lie to me and promise to read them? Books need to be read. The pages need to be turned.

Yes, I hate it when people call me a 'national treasure'. It takes away your bite and makes you feel like a harmless old golden Labrador.

Love is the only thing that keeps me sane.

I married two weeks after my 18th birthday, far too young, and by the time I was 23 I was a single mother of three small children, Sean, Daniel and Victoria, living in a prefab house.

I don't know why women are so mad about flowers. Personally, they leave me cold. I prefer trees.

Every time I start a new piece of work, I spend a long while under the duvet thinking I can't do it.

There's only one thing more boring than listening to other people's dreams, and that's listening to their problems.

I think we take it for granted that if you are with your husband after 30 years, then he is the love of your life.

I am from the working class. I am now what I was then. No amount of balsamic vinegar and Prada handbags could make me forget what it was like to be poor.

8.45 a.m. My mother is in the hospital grounds smoking a cigarette. She is looking old and haggard. All the debauchery is catching up with her.

Lust was edging confusion for the lead. Good sense had fallen far behind.

When I came to Johannesburg from the countryside, I knew nobody, but many strangers were very kind to me. I then was dragged into politics, and then, subsequently, I became a lawyer.

We're going to restructure the state government into a government that's responsive to the needs of New York state taxpayers.

If you want to go east, don't go west.

If I was born again, I would be able to do any sport because I would have time to learn.

My friends are all geeks. And many of them are scientists who love playing outside as much as I do.

Golfers should not fail to realize that it is a game of great traditions, of high ideals of sportsmanship, one in which a strict adherence to the rules is essential.

Man can find no better retreat from the world than art, and man can find no stronger link with the world than art.

I don't like to get bored and don't like to repeat myself.

To get someone to pose, you have to be very good friends and above all speak the language.