On her baby: He's 16 months old and he eats soap and paper. What's going on with kids?

I started at 5 years old in the kitchen table with my family supporting me. I know where I'm from and I know exactly where I'm going.

On her son Rene: Oh my God, when he's 20 years old what's going to happen to me? I'm gonna marry him.

The BBC produces wonderful programmes; it also produces a load of old rubbish.

However, the sciences of society and of history retained their old subservient relation to metaphysics for a long time - well into the eighteenth century.

Old age is when the liver spots show through your gloves.

You know you're old if they have discontinued your blood type.

You know you're old if your walker has an airbag.

When superstition is allowed to perform the task of old age in dulling the human temperament, we can say goodbye to all excellence in poetry, in painting, and in music.

The infant runs toward it with its eyes closed, the adult is stationary, the old man approaches it with his back turned.

Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought.

It's my old girl that advises. She has the head. But I never own to it before her. Discipline must be maintained.

Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childhood days, recall to the old man the pleasures of his youth, and transport the traveler back to his own fireside and quiet home!

Send forth the child and childish man together, and blush for the pride that libels our own old happy state, and gives its title to an ugly and distorted image.

Believe me, you can get into a lot of trouble being sixteen years old in a foreign country with no adult telling you when to come home.