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 will not rest until no child goes hungry. All is possible.

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

Gardening is the greatest tonic and therapy a human being can have. Even if you have only a tiny piece of earth, you can create something beautiful, which we all have a great need for. If we begin by respecting plants, it's inevitable we'll respect people.

Thursday? Oh no, it can't be! It's too gruesome.

When I wear a silk scarf I never feel so definitely like a woman, a beautiful woman

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?