It's like if you don't go to a dance you can never be rejected but you'll never get to dance either. - Maeve Binchy

Suddenly they asked me, as only the French would, ‘Madame, what is your philosophy of life?’ What a cosmic question, but I had to answer, and answer quickly, because it was live. So I said, in French, ‘I think that you’ve got to play the hand that you’re dealt and stop wishing for another hand.’

On my 100th birthday, piloting Gordon and myself into the side of a mountain.

I often wonder that if I had met Hitler, I reckon I might have found some streak of decency in him.