The House of Lords, an illusion to which I have never been able to subscribe - responsibility without power, the prerogative of the eunuch throughout the ages.

Every exit is an entry somewhere else.

Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.

If you associate enough with older people who do enjoy their lives, who are not stored away in any golden ghettos, you will gain a sense of continuity and of the possibility for a full life.

Words are sacred. If you get the right ones in the right order you can nudge the world a little.

It's not the voting that's democracy; it's the counting.

A healthy attitude is contagious but don't wait to catch it from others. Be a carrier.

To be an artist at all is like living in Switzerland during a world war. To be an artist in Zurich, in 1917, implies a degree of self-absorption that would have glazed over the eyes of Narcissus.

If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older.

Give us this day our daily mask.

Atheism is a crutch for those who cannot bear the reality of God.

The measure of a man is determined by how he responds to the truth of God.

The blood of Christ “purchased men for God from every tribe and language and people and nation” (Revelation 5:9 NIV).

I'm not a film star, I am an actress. Being a film star is such a false life, lived for fake values and for publicity.

I really do believe I can accomplish a great deal with a big grin. I know some people find that disconcerting but that doesn't matter.

I'm against this huge globalisation on the basis of economic advantage.

There are no magics or elves / Or timely godmothers to guide us. We are lost, must / Wizard a track through our own screaming weed.

You must understand the texture of your hair before you choose a style.

If the states had to vote on slavery, we would have lost the vote.

It's been agony but I couldn't have done it any other way.

we interpret life at moments of the deepest desperation.