“True friends are families which you can select.”

“You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.”

“You can always tell what kind of a person a man really thinks you are by the earrings he gives you.”

“When you have nobody you can make a cup of tea for, when nobody needs you, that's when I think life is over.”

“I heard a definition once: Happiness is health and a short memory! I wish I'd invented it, because it is very true.”

“It's that wonderful old-fashioned idea that others come first and you come second. This was the whole ethic by which I was brought up. Others matter more than you do, so 'don't fuss, dear; get on with it'.”

“Make-up can only make you look pretty on the outside but it doesn't help if you're ugly on the inside. Unless you eat the make-up.”