There's just no place like Scotland when the sun is out. I just love coming home.

I've always been quite thrifty. I can't bear to spend hundreds of pounds on designer clothes. I shop in second-hand shops in Portobello Road and go to Sue Ryder.

As a child, I always chose a false nose and some face paint and a wig for my birthday.

I take my hat off to mums who have lots of kids. Anyone that says being a mum isn't a full-time job has obviously never had any.

I just wanted to be an actress. It never occurred to me that I could become famous, because I'm not one of those people who's automatically going to be the lead. I always saw myself as the mate.

My husband is always telling me: 'We're on holiday - we don't need to have an itinerary!' But I always want to see as much as I can. Sometimes, I come back from holiday needing a holiday.

I've made this conscious decision to tell people on the street when I think they're wearing something great. If more people did that, the world would be a better place.

Nobody is more individual than you, so be confident with who you are and what you have to offer because everybody has got things to offer.

Americans are so direct. They'd ask me, 'What's your five-year plan? Do you have a five-year plan?' I don't know what I'm having for my tea tonight let alone a five-year plan.

I still giggle when someone asks for my address and I say, Hollywood, Los Angeles.

I've reached a point in my life where going to the supermarket is a day out.

I abhor the supreme folly of those who blame the disciples of nature in defiance of those masters who were themselves her pupils

Eyes can only capture objects that already seen in mind.And mind can only see things that already written in heart.

A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.

Long gone are the days when hospital stays and surgeries made up the bulk of seniors' annual medical expenses.

You are a principal work, a fragment of [Goddess herself], you have in yourself a part of [her]. Why then are you ignorant of your high birth?

It's through my health that I'm able to maintain that every single day and keep light in people until I'm actually of service to others.

...if I don't look after my body, I'll have nowhere to live.

The Koran says the killing of an innocent, the taking of an innocent life, is tantamount to killing all of mankind.

Ants are a curious race

Many prayers are declined because of the rank odor of a corrupt heart, rising through the beautiful words. Let the words be wrong but the meaning right. . . . That flawed utterance is dearer to God!