How shall I sum up my life? I think I've been particularly lucky. Does that have something to do with faith also? I know my mother always used to say, 'Good things aren't supposed to just fall in your lap. God is very generous, but he expects you to do your part first.' So you have to make that effort. But at the end of a bad time or a huge effort, I've always had - how shall I say it? - the prize at the end. My whole life shows that.

The beauty of a woman is not in the clothes she wears, the figure that she carries or the way she combs her hair.

Take care of the small circle around you. When you have succeeded with them, then move outwards, one small step at a time.

Somebody said to me the other day, 'You know, it's really senseless, what you're doing. There's always been suffering, there will always be suffering, and you're just prolonging the suffering of these children [by rescuing them].' My answer is, 'Okay, then, let's start with your grandchild. Don't buy antibiotics if it gets pneumonia. Don't take it to the hospital of it has an accident. It's against life-against humanity-to think that way.

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

Some people dream of having a big swimming pool. With me, it’s closets

There is a shade of red for every woman.