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.

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

There is a shade of red for every woman.

If you ever need a helping hand, it is at the end of your arm. As you get older you must remember you have a second hand. The first one is to help yourself. The second hand is to help others.

People, even more than things, have to be restored, renewed, revived, reclaimed, and redeemed; never throw out anyone.

I don't bite you know ... unless it's called for.

When you have nobody you can make a cup of tea for, when nobody needs you, that's when I think life is over.