Giving is living. If you stop wanting to give, there's nothing more to live for.

I've always had- how shall I say it? -the prize at the end. My whole life shows that.

The most important thing is growing old gracefully.

My life isn’t theories and formulae. It’s part instinct, part common sense. Logic is as good a word as any, and I’ve absorbed what logic I have from everything and everyone… from my mother, from training as a ballet dancer, from Vogue magazine, from the laws of life and health and nature.

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

To plant a garden is to believe in tomorrow.

People associate me with a time when movies were pleasant, when women wore pretty dresses in films and you heard beautiful music. I always love it when people write me and and say 'I was having a rotten time, and I walked into a cinema and saw one of your movies, and it made such a difference.'