Perhaps we're too embarrassed to change or too frightened of the consequences of showing that we actually care. But why not risk it anyway? Begin today. Carry out a random act of seemingly senseless kindness, with no expectation of reward or punishment, safe in the knowledge that one day, someone somewhere might do the same for you.

I work on instinct. It's my best adviser.

I remember saying to my husband, ''Why? Why have you got this lady around?'' And he said, ''Well, I refuse to be the Prince of Wales who never had a mistress.''

... I'm much closer to the people at the bottom than the people at the top, and the latter won't forgive me for it.

My husband asked for the separation and I supported it. We had struggled to keep it going, but obviously we'd both run out of steam.

I found myself being more and more involved with people who were rejected by society - with drug addicts, alcoholism, battered this, battered that - and I found an affinity there.

Death doesn't frighten me.