Look, whenever I hear or read I’m beautiful, I simply don’t understand it … I’m certainly not beautiful in any conventional way. I didn't make my career on beauty.

If I'm honest I have to tell you I still read fairy-tales and I like them best of all.

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.

As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands, one for helping yourself, the other for helping others.

The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.

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.

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