“The kindness and affection from the public have carried me through some of the most difficult periods, and always your love and affection have eased the journey.”

People think that at the end of the day a man is the only answer. Actually, a fulfilling job is better for me.

I understand that change is frightening for people, especially if there’s nothing to go to. It’s best to stay where you are. I understand that.

Everyone needs to be valued. Everyone has the potential to give something back.

The world is too little aware of the waste of life, limb and land which anti-personnel landmines are causing among some of the poorest people on earth.

Carry out a random act of kindness, with no expectation of reward, safe in the knowledge that one day someone might do the same for you.

I think like any marriage, especially when you’ve had divorced parents like myself; you want to try even harder to make it work.

I have a woman’s instinct and it’s always a good one.

I’ve got what my mother’s got – however bloody you are feeling you can put on the most amazing show of happiness.

I do things differently, because I don’t go by a rule book, because I lead from the heart, not the head, and albeit that’s got me into trouble in my work, I understand that.

Everyone of us needs to show how much we care for each other and, in the process, care for ourselves.

I knew what my job was; it was to go out and meet the people and love them.

I am not a political figure, nor do I want to be one; but I come with my heart.

Only do what your heart tells you.

Anywhere I see suffering, that is where I want to be, doing what I can.

I remember when I used to sit on hospital beds and hold peoples hands, people used to be shocked because they d never seen this before. To me it was quite normal.

I’d like people to think of me as someone who cares about them.

We give our best affections to the beautiful, only our second best to the useful.

We need truth to grow in the same way that we need vitamins, affection and love.

A woman gets angry when a man denies his faults, because she knew them all along. His lying mocks her affection; it is the deceit that angers her more than the faults.

Look to the cross, think of the cross, meditate on the cross, and then go and set your affections on the world if you can.

The three things you can offer your children to change them: attention, appreciation and affection.

I can honestly say that I was never affected by the question of the success of an undertaking. If I felt it was the right thing to do, I was for it regardless of the possible outcome.

Until the will and the affections are brought under the authority of Christ, we have not begun to understand, let alone to accept, His lordship.

Love was meant to be also a sign, a symbol, a messenger, a telltale of the Divine. Love is a messenger from God saying that every human affection and every ecstasy of love are sparks from the great flame of love that is God.