Never regret. If it's good, it's wonderful. If it's bad, it's experience.

I was always amused by the prayers of the saintly. “God do this, God don’t do that.” I thought God probably laughed at them too, unless He was a little annoyed by their temerity.

I've always thought you've got to believe in luck to get it.

Tea! The English could always be pacified with it!

When I was 14 and living in London, I'd go around Hampton Court Palace with its marvelous atmosphere, through the gateway where Ann Boleyn walked, the haunted gallery down which Katherine Howard ran. It all set me going. It all started from there.

But our lives were not as they seemed, were they, Sophia? No one's life ever is.

Never regret. If it's good, it's wonderful. If it's bad, it's experience.