Mankind can be very magnanimous, given the chance.

Today everything must be easy and it mustn't take time ... ready meals. Powdered hot chocolate and instant coffee ... Living takes time. We need to give each other time.

I believe I could commit a crime. We all can. It depends on which situations we find ourselves in. In despair, I would steal food if my children were hungry.

If we don't believe in the Devil, we won't be able to recognize him when he suddenly shows up.

If you want to be seen, you have to put yourself out there - it's that simple.

Successful people are not interesting. I feel for the losers. That's where my heart lies.

I'm not a good crime writer. I'm not good with plots... so I have to do something else.

It is hard work to give life to new characters every single day. It is not as if I am God. I am just a tired, middle-aged woman trying to keep going.

Talent is an art of gaining admiration!

Every baby saved, every mother helped to choose life is a step in the right direction.

What sets us against one another is not our aims - they all come to the same thing - but our methods, which are the fruit of our varied reasoning.

And what happened then? Well, in Whoville they say that the Grinch's small heart grew three sizes that day

Vulnerability is beautiful to me. There might be a need to fabricate your own beauty paradigms. I guess I never quite bought into any kind of 'standard'.

I have said it before but it bears repeating: Aid is not a gift. The United States provides foreign assistance because it serves OUR interests.

I enjoy life. I always enjoy jokes.

Nature often seems like an idea that has had its day.

It's just coincidental that the acting took off first over everything else.

Let the children have their night of fun and laughter, let the gifts of Father Christmas delight their play. Let us grown-ups share to the full in their unstinted pleasures.