I'm not scared of snakes, spiders or heights. I have three children; as a mum, you can't be afraid of things like that.

The ideal man doesn't exist. A husband is easier to find.

I would make a poor vegetarian because I adore meat.

I was so beautiful but I didn't realise it for years. I saw pictures of myself and even I was stunned.

I'm very organised these days, and I keep my life in my handbag, like most women.

I am as far from a hypochondriac as you could ever be.

I met Peter Sellers when I was 21 and we got married ten days later. He was not right mentally, but I hung in there for four years before I left.

I spend hours mowing the lawn in absolutely straight lines on my tractor. If it's not right, I do it again.

I am good at down grading - I have found I can live the same lifestyle in a two-bedroom apartment as in a five-bedroom house.

I used to collect vintage clothing - exquisite lace dresses, embroidered shawls and ornate jewelry - but that's just not me any more.

I say I don't sleep with married men, but what I mean is that I don't sleep with happily married men.

In the moment of quietness, my strength re-energized

It is only through silence that truth can be said, because it is only through silence that the truth is heard.

One must lose one's life in order to save it.

When a friend of mine boasted about living in a gated community, I thought he meant Folsom, and I wondered whether he knew Charles Manson.

I keep track of my body by how my jeans fit—and how I feel.

The science that studies the supreme good for man is politics.

The crisis is not out there in the world, it is within our own consciousness.

It's so amazing. I mean talk about sexuality changing.

In any commersial setting time comes in three forms. There's real time, there's perceived time, and there's a combination of two.

What we need is a theology of salvation that begins and ends with a recognition of every person's hunger for glory.