I went through a period of first successes. Then there was the inevitable change: the bad newspaper articles. Some people don't care about that, but I do. I'm hurt. I feel it. I don't think I've done anything dreadful. Sometimes you do things for reasons the press doesn't know. But I'm happy to go on as I have.

Promise me one thing: don't take me home until I'm drunk - very drunk indeed.

[On her UNICEF work:] I'm glad I've got a name, because I'm using it for what it's worth. ... I do not want to see mothers and fathers digging graves for their children.

There is a science of war, but how strange that there isn't a science of peace. There are colleges of war; why can’t we study peace?

I realize that most of us live on the skin - on the surface - without appreciating just how wonderful it is simply to be alive at all.

I'm half-Irish, half-Dutch, and I was born in Belgium. If I was a dog, I'd be in a hell of a mess!

I heard a definition once: Happiness is health and a short memory! I wish I'd invented it, because it is very true.