If you had the ceiling falling down in your living room, would you not go and have a repair?

We're all works of art in progress.

I didn't marry to have children. I married to have a relationship, and I was blessed with one child. I was an only child, too - my mother was smarter than most women today; she just had me.

I'm a working woman of 80 trying to work out what the image I can project is. How I can do it with, you know, dignity.

My mother was harsh and constantly told me I had jug ears and heaven knows what else. But she was devoted and a hard worker.

As a model, I didn't have an identity; I was a chameleon, a silent actress. I was an amorphous thing. I wasn't full of personality, I was full of solitude and solemnity. I wasn't a cover-girl type.

I don't live for stuff and things, and if I had to live in a cardboard box, I would put curtains on it.

There’s always a boyfriend... Whatever else I have to give up on, I won’t give up on love.

My life has been amazing. How many other ladies of 76 can say that the snapshot on their senior citizen's card was taken by Norman Parkinson?

We were so poor that my mother would often leave me in a foster home until she could raise enough money to rent rooms for us.

The money I've earned has enabled me to keep my life in my own hands. I had a terrific body, and I got paid for using it.

Don't love just for beauty, love to make her beautiful.

Those stories were the sound track of my summer with you.

Spring, when the earth tilts closer to the sun, runs a strict timetable of flowers.

I didn't know if he really meant talk, make out, or something else completely, but I'd be happy with any of them.

There's something real in women's intuition. It's an accurate signpost for decision making, but it usually bumps up against man's logic. So we have to put ego aside and listen to them.

Just as a well-filled day brings blessed sleep, so a well-employed life brings a blessed death.

I’m waiting for my princess to come I just have to be patient.

Love is looking at the same mountains from different angles.

Learning without wisdom is a load of books on a donkey's back.