I swim more or less every day.

It makes me upset, if not angry, when people assume that there can be no morality without a religious framework. If there's a moral framework without all that religious stuff, it's more valuable.

I try to be classic without being mumsy.

I've never particularly liked the idea of looking back; I'd rather look forward

I look at myself objectively and in a way I see myself as a commodity. Your name becomes somehow outside yourself. Now, when I'm at home being Mrs. Scarfe, that's when I'm most myself.

I know some actresses who used to be older than me who are now younger than me - I don't know how they do it.

I think one wants lots of different lives.

I think all good writing is a struggle. To write as well as you feel you can has to be a struggle, almost by definition, because you could always improve.

We get a lot of overseas people wanting to order cakes.

Listening to my regular favourites - Mozart, Beethoven, Brahms and so on - I always feel, quite misguidedly, that nothing can be too bad if such beauty and brilliance exists in the world.

The rehearsal time is almost my favourite part of being an actress, particularly if you're working on a play that hasn't been done before.

Go outside, wherever you are, and appreciate each drop of water, each flower, each architectural work of art.

It is what it is

What is any ocean but a multitude of drops?

What is bad? All that proceeds from weakness

My Cleveland years were both scientifically and personally most rewarding. My wife Judy was able to rejoin me in our research and my research group grew rapidly.

In peace, a wise man makes preparations for war.

The development of willpower -I will, I won't and I want- may define what it means to be human.

Capitalism itself is not to be condemned. And surely it is not vicious of its very nature, but it has been vitiated.

The person you are matters more than the place to which you go.

There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen.