"As a rule, wearing a bigger pair of jeans looks better than squishing yourself into a pair of jeans that used to fit before you gave up smoking."

"I prefer highs and lows to an even keel. Moderation is never something I've been good at."

"I still can't set up the ironing-board. A complete Luddite."

"I admire the Elsie Tanners and Barbara Windsors of the world: people who have crawled back from the abyss. I'm quite camp in that respect."

"Only God Himself fully appreciates the influence of a Christian mother in the molding of character in her children."

"You have to prioritize what you stress about when you have a child."

"A man who says that no patriot should attack the war until it is over... is saying no good son should warn his mother of a cliff until she has fallen."

"The typewriting machine, when played with expression, is no more annoying than the piano when played by a sister or near relation."