Of course risk-taking does not always pay off, but it's a lot of fun!

They may turn out to be a great disappointment, or perhaps they may be full of enchanting surprises.

That image of the countryside being a threatening place still exists. People continue to resist the challenge of learning about aspects of life they don't understand.

Twenty years ago, I was living in a lovely cottage on the edge of Dartmoor but I couldn't afford to run a car.

Unimaginative people are spared quite a lot. They're often much happier, because they don't go through all the variety of conceptions of the person they love.

I always read that men don't like intelligent girls, but I've always found the reverse.

People try much less hard to make a marriage work than they used to fifty years ago. Divorce is easier.

Rebecca is an example of how not to manage men. The rules of the game never change, it requires subtlety.

I was sent to a finishing school, which didn't last long when mother found out how badly chaperoned we were. Then I 'came out' before going to a domestic science school.

Unimaginative people are spared quite a lot.

I have a garden, and I'm passionately interested in young people.

Being cool, having a 'cool' energy is just not attractive to me.

I'd rather entrust the government of the United States to the first 400 people listed in the Boston telephone directory than to the faculty of Harvard University.

I don't consciously beat the drums for any cause, not even the negro in the United States.

America is so caught up in this celebrity mania!

Misfortune is never invited. And it comes and sits at the table without permission and it eats, leaving nothing but bones.

Vociferation and calmness of character seldom meet in the same person.

When you start taking consistent action, you will see results.

A party: one arrives long after it's started, and one's going to leave long before it's over.

I open each class with an explanation of the singular importance of being a "dealmaker." The manifesto of the dealmaker is simple: Reality is negotiable.

Most art is just surface noise.