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.

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've got lots of good friends. I could have affairs. I can read a book all night, put the cat on the end of the bed. I can pick up my passport and go to France. I don't have to ask anybody.

To be a judge you don't have to know about books, you have to be skilled at picking shrapnel out of your head.

I am blessed beyond the realms of blessedness, and easily the greatest pleasure is giving it away

They [granddaughters] went to Disneyland and Alice proudly told Snow White: 'My grandmother is a famous atlas!' So that's nice - they're happy that I'm an atlas!

I dont think men are that attracted by glamour. I think women are attracted by glamour. I think men are attracted by a sense of friendship.