My greatest victory has been to be able to live with myself, to accept my shortcomings. I'm a long way from the human being I'd liked to be, but I've decided I'm not so bad after all.

If we are meant to "love thy neighbor as theyself," then surely we should love the world's children as our own.

This is what you do on your very first day in Paris. You get yourself, not a drizzle, but some honest-to-goodness rain, and you find yourself someone really nice and drive her through the Bois de Boulogne in a taxi. The rain's very important. That's when Paris smells its sweetest. It's the damp chestnut trees.

I never expected to be a star, never counted on it, never even wanted it. Not that I didn't enjoy it all when it happened.

The most important job in life is being a mom.

My greatest ambition is to have a career without becoming a career woman.

It always boils down to the same thing - not only receiving love, but desperately needing to give it.