If you feel compelled to give a New Year's Eve party, don't invite people to arrive too early or they'll go off the boil before midnight.

Go to lots of interviews, at least one a month even when you don't need a job, to keep in training for when you do.

Without doubt, keep a diary. From the day you're born, keep a diary, because we all forget things so quickly.

I love the long grass coming up to meet the willows.

Youve simply got to go on and on with your family and friends and tell them how much you love them because you never know whether theyll be there tomorrow, do you?

At home I have big vats of cabbage soup that I make to slim down.

The male - I have found - is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness and kindness, can be trained to do most things.