Dr. Kissinger was surprised that I knew where Ghana was.

I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department store and he asked for my autograph.

I guess I was an early method actress. I would go to a quiet part of the sound stage with my mother. I wouldn't think of anything sad, I would just make my mind a blank. In a minute I could cry.

Intentions often melt in the face of unexpected opportunity.

When you're a performer, you have to please a large audience. And when you're in politics, you have to please a large audience, too.

The U.N. acts as the world's conscience, and over eighty-five percent of the work that is done by the United Nations is in the social, economic, educational and cultural fields.

I've led three lives: the acting part, wife and mother - which is a career - and international relations. I'm proud of my career, the first one, and I'm proud of the other two, too.