Most of the Bond girls have been bimbos. I have never been a bimbo.

My father was in the civil service. I can remember standing in a bus shelter in the pouring rain, and that we were allowed candy floss at the end of the holiday if we had behaved.

I'm told leather drives men up the wall. I like wearing it because it because it feels nice.

Apart from anything else, I find boots are too hot except in wintry weather. At home I usually wear a sweater, shirt and slacks.

I've travelled around the UK a lot recently and have discovered that I really like trains. If you're in the quiet carriage, nobody can get hold of you and you can relax.

South Africa is the most beautiful country I have been to. Canada is also hugely underrated.

I hate everything about airports from getting there to taking off.

I'm very fond of Norfolk. My husband came from there and the kids love it. Devon is beautiful, too.

I'm the slowest reader in the world, because I perform it all in my head.

No More Avengers! There's nothing new to get out of it - I want to go forward, not backward.

If you show life that isn’t yours you are wasting your time without knowing it. Let people see for themselves.

They say that to live in the Wilds, you have to be half-wild yourself. Or at least very brave. And Zane is both.

There is not a single ill-doer who could not be turned to some good.

When the missionaries came to Africa they had the Bible and we had the land. They said 'Let us pray.' We closed our eyes. When we opened them we had the Bible and they had the land.

You can design a mortgage system that is different without a Fannie and Freddie, but there are principles you have to have, to have a good system.

As an investor in small companies, I don't care how rich Microsoft is. I care about what my opportunities are.

You should not do this, Comrade. We are only in the introductory stage yet, here in Western Europe. And in that stage it is better to encourage the fighters than the rulers.

I think the best way that we can bring people together is through change in Washington, D.C.

I have a theory, too, that the best and only answer to a smear or to an honest misunderstanding of the facts is to tell the truth

To whom should we marry Freedom, to make it multiply?