I have often felt that I cheated my children a little. I was never so totally theirs as most mothers are. I gave to audiences whatbelonged to my children, got back from audiences the love my children longed to give me.

As with all children, the feeling that I was useful was perhaps the greatest joy I experienced.

To tell the people in the West not to use their cars means that these people may never see another soul for weeks and weeks nor have a way of getting a sick person to a doctor.

In all our contacts it is probably the sense of being really needed and wanted which gives us the greatest satisfaction and creates the most lasting bond.

I have never felt that anything really mattered but knowing that you stood for the things in which you believed and had done the very best you could.

Understanding is a two-way street.

Do one thing every day that scares you.