The facts of life are that a child who has seen war cannot be compared with a child who doesn't know what war is except from television.

I have to say that since my mother died, I am not the same person anymore. My life has changed a great deal because it's really unbearable to think you can't see her anymore or talk to her anymore.

Mistakes are a part of the dues one pays for a full life.

You really have to be satisfied with what you are and accept from life what it still very generously offers you - and notice it, and be glad for it.

Ignorance has its virtues; without it there'd be mighty little conversation.

Sometimes when you involve yourself in so many things, you can't do any of them well - and I like to do everything perfectly.

I was blessed with a sense of my own destiny. I have never sold myself short. I have never judged myself by other people's standards. I have always expected a great deal of myself, and if I fail, I fail myself. So failure or reversal does not bring out resentment in me because I cannot blame others for any misfortune that befalls me.