I don't feel like I am 66 at all. I feel more like I am 35. But I have a bus pass so it must be true.

I think handbags, not so much clothes anymore, but I think you can tell a fashion victim by their handbag.

Hundreds of political prisoners still suffer in Tibetan prisons. Freedom of speech is not allowed in any sense. It is illegal to possess a photo of the Dalai Lama.

To be a judge you don't have to know about books, you have to be skilled at picking shrapnel out of your head.

I've got lots of good friends. I could have affairs. I can read a book all night, put the cat on the end of the bed. I can pick up my passport and go to France. I don't have to ask anybody.

Sure, good things can go badly wrong. Nevertheless, there's always another day.

I've been given this blessing, which is my granddaughter. You're no longer just you. You suddenly fit into the chest of drawers of life.

I have a toy giraffe on my bed. I've got photographs over my desk as well as a mask of a giraffe in my kitchen. I am totally hooked.

You must swear never to go on the dole. Never be bored. Find something to do. And don't yawn.

I was once kissed on the lips by a giraffe, and I don't think I've ever got over it.

Death is nothing at all. I have only slipped away into the next room.

You can only be in a bad mood for so long before you have to face up to the fact that it isn't a bad mood at all

Once you realize the magic of life is inside you

If government half a century ago had provided us with all our dinners and breakfasts, it would be the practice of our orators today to assume the impossibility of our providing for ourselves.

Recognize and embrace your flaws so you can learn from them. Sometimes it takes a little polishing to truly shine.

My whole life has been instinctual for me. I wouldn't do well in the computer world.

I always say, decisions I make, I live with them. There's always ways you can correct them or ways you can do them better. At the end of the day, I live with them.

The youth of today and the youth of tomorrow will be accorded an almost unequaled opportunity for great accomplishment and for human service.

But my hands are in the right place." "Heart," I corrected. "Your heart's in the right place." "Yeah, but my hands are in an even better place." And so they were.

I have an eight-year-old child, and I literally can't wrap my mind around the kind of grief that must be felt when you lose a child.

I think it's important to recall... what you remember your grandmother making, where you're from and the foods you enjoyed as a child yourself, and pass that information off to your kids.