"Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales, so is the other"

"Raising children is an incredibly hard and risky business in which no cumulative wisdom is gained: each generation repeats the mistakes the previous one made"

"One death is a tragedy; one million is a statistic"

"I was first to break the news about the death of Lady Diana. The CNN team couldn't get into makeup fast enough"

"Death is no more than passing from one room into another. But there's a difference for me, you know. Because in that other room I shall be able to see"

"One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation"

"A woman should be home with the children, building that home and making sure there's a secure family atmosphere"

"Our children are counting on us to provide two things: consistency and structure. Children need parents who say what they mean, mean what they say, and do what they say they are going to do"

"I go to Malawi twice a year. It's where two of my children were adopted from, and I have a lot of projects there that I go and check up on and children who I look after. It's sort of a commitment that I've made to this country and the hundreds of thousands of children there who have been orphaned by AIDS"

"Any film which views the darker side of life, which is death with a sense of humor, is very much to my taste"