Well, it's nice being top banana in the shock department.

And...I think that's what life is all about, actually, about children and flowers.

I have learnt how to live…how to be in the world and of the world, and not just to stand aside and watch.

When the chips are down, you are alone, and loneliness can be terrifying. Fortunately, I've always had a chum I could call. And I love to be alone. It doesn't bother me one bit. I’m my own company.

It makes me self-conscious. It's because I'm known, in the limelight, that it's getting all the gravy, but if you knew, if you saw some of the people who make it possible for UNICEF to help these children survive. These are the people who do the jobs-the unknowns, whose names you will never know...I at least get a dollar a year, but they don't.

What would be awful would be to die and look back miserably - seeing only the bad things, the opportunities missed, or what could have been.

It is too much to hope that I shall keep up my success. I don't ask for that. All I shall do is my best- and hope.