I've looked forward to being older because you will have that many more miles covered. We mustn't be led into thinking getting old is bad. Growing old is good.

I am now an old lioness, if I see my young ones getting out of order, I've got to be able to say to them this is not how lions behave. This is not right.

I've never felt the constraints of social acceptability.

I prefer not to eat food that has a face.

Learn from nature. Stuff lives and stuff dies all the time, you know. Animals and birds and flowers. Trees come and go, and we come and go. Thats it. So we should all seize life and make the most of what we have while we can.

I was once kissed on the lips by a giraffe, and I don't think I've ever got over it.

NASA space scientists have been studying giraffe skin so they can apply what they learn from it to the construction of spacesuits.