If my world were to cave in tomorrow, I would look back on all the pleasures, excitements and worthwhilenesses I have been lucky enough to have had. Not the sadness, not my miscarriages or my father leaving home, but the joy of everything else. It will have been enough.
Water is life, and clean water means health.
I don't believe in collective guilt, but I do believe in collective responsibility.
There are certain shades of limelight that can wreck a girl's complexion.
When you have nobody you can make a cup of tea for, when nobody needs you, that's when I think life is over.
It's that wonderful old-fashioned idea that others come first and you come second. This was the whole ethic by which I was brought up. Others matter more than you do, so 'don't fuss, dear; get on with it.'
I had to make a choice at one point in my life, of missing films or missing my children. It was a very easy decision to make because I missed my children so very much.
As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands, one for helping yourself, the other for helping others.
I'm an introvert... I love being by myself, love being outdoors, love taking a long walk with my dogs and looking at the trees, flowers, the sky.
Success is like reaching an important birthday and finding you're exactly the same.
If I get married, I want to be very married.
Paris is always a good idea.
I never think of myself as an icon. What is in other people's minds is not in my mind. I just do my thing.
The 'Third World' is a term I don't like very much because we're all one world. I want people to know that the largest part of humanity is suffering.
There is a moral obligation that those who have should give to those who don't.
I never thought I'd land in pictures with a face like mine.
I can testify to what UNICEF means to children because I was among those who received food and medical relief right after World War II.
People, even more than things, have to be restored, renewed, revived, reclaimed, and redeemed; never throw out anyone.