It makes me feel wonderful that people still care for me... that I have so many fans among young people, who write to me and tell me I have been an inspiration.

I was never the girl next door.

I wasn't trying to be anything. I was just myself.

I never kept up with the fashions. I believed in wearing what I thought looked good on me.

For years I had my hair parted down the middle in a ponytail, tucked down around the sides Well, I went and cut the bangs, and I've been wearing them ever since. They say it's my trademark.

Young women say I helped them come out of their shells.

My favorite actress of all times is Bette Davis in Dark Victory. I have seen it six or seven times, and I still cry.

Focusing on the past is only a barricade to the future. Once you overcome that barricade, the possibilities are endless.

The person interested in success has to learn to view failure as a healthy inevitable part of the process of getting to the top.

Would that ... a sense of the true aim of life might elevate the tone of politics and trade till public and private honour become identical.

The credit which the apparent conformity with recognized scientific standards can gain for seemingly simple but false theories may, as the present instance shows, have grave consequences.

Learning is never aversive - usually we are not aware of it at all. It is failure to learn that is frustrating and boring, and so is having to attend to nonsensical activities.

O Christian, look up and take comfort. Jesus has prepared a place for you, and those who follow Him shall never perish, neither shall anyone pluck them out of His hands.

Artificial Intelligence is whatever hasn't been done yet.

Friends are rare for, the good reason that men are not common.

Only the patients have to take off their clothes. I think I'm pretty safe.

It's lovely to be old. I've got age, experience and zero personal ambition. No body could corrupt me by anything: possibly a job in the government, a peerage, a quango, I don't want any of it.