For many years I enjoyed the pleasure of cruising on my yacht all summer long and these were my best holidays. In mid-May, we'd start in St Tropez. I'd collect my bikinis from my home there and then we'd go up to Cannes for the Film Festival, on to Monte Carlo for the Grand Prix and then to Italy.

My second husband believed I had such a fickle attitude to friendship that each Friday he would update the list of my 'Top Ten' friends in the manner of a Top Of The Pops chart countdown.

One Christmas build-up tradition, however, has totally bypassed me - that of going up to town and 'doing a show.'

It may be a cliche, but it's true - the build-up to Christmas is so much more pleasurable than the actual day itself.

Lots of women love to accuse men of being immature when the fellow in question displays a reluctance to 'commit.'

As a precocious teen I dreamed of being Graham Greene. Well, as it turned out, I never wrote a great novel, sadly, and I never converted to Catholicism, happily, but I did do one thing he did. That is, in middle age I moved to a seaside town and got into a right barney with the local powers-that-be.

Mind you, I've always been a very off-message type of fat broad; one who gladly admits she reached the size she is now solely through lack of discipline and love of pleasure, and who rather despises people (except those with proven medical conditions) who pretend that it is generally otherwise.

Tears are sometimes an inappropriate response to death. When a life has been lived completely honestly, completely successfully, or just completely, the correct response to death's perfect punctuation mark is a smile.

Willingness to change is a strength, even if it means plunging part of the company into total confusion for a while.

Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is all about growing others.

You've got to eat while you dream. You've got to deliver on short-range commitments, while you develop a long-range strategy and vision and implement it. The success of doing both. Walking and chewing gum if you will. Getting it done in the short-range, and delivering a long-range plan, and executing on that.

I've learned that mistakes can often be as good a teacher as success.

Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion.

Number one, cash is king... number two, communicate... number three, buy or bury the competition.

I was afraid of the internet... because I couldn't type.

Control your own destiny or someone else will.

In order to lead a country or a company, you've got to get everybody on the same page and you've got to be able to have a vision of where you're going. America can't have a vision of health care for everybody, green economy, regulations - can't have a bunch of piece-meal activities. It's got to have a vision.

What's important at the grocery store is just as important in engines or medical systems. If the customer isn't satisfied, if the stuff is getting stale, if the shelf isn't right, or if the offerings aren't right, it's the same thing. You manage it like a small organization. You don't get hung up on zeros.

Marriage, for a woman at least, hampers the two things that made life to me glorious - friendship and learning.

By making a company successful, you can provide more employment, and, if you treat your staff well, then your business itself becomes a charity.

No one holds a permanent speed advantage in the market due to the limits of human intelligence and vision. Your advantage comes from your ability to feel the change faster and take decisive action faster.

Our focus going forward is on sectors where the life of China's middle class can be upgraded: health, travel, leisure, education, and the Internet. We call it marrying China's growth with global resources.

I only understand friendship or scorched earth.

What I think works for Fox News is we have a very direct form of communication.

You just don't go out when you're over 55 years of age, have a colossal failure, and expect to find work in your field again.

We're losing our freedom of speech. We are losing freedom of religion. We are losing freedom of the press.

I consider myself a freedom fighter, fighting for my clients.

I want clean water and clean air and conservation... that's not what extreme environmentalists are all about. For them, it is a religion. They believe in trees and animals, not God.

All business is basically about customers and marketing and making money and capitalism and winning and promoting it and having something someone really wants.

Everybody fears the unknown. But I have a strong feeling there's something bigger than us. I don't think all this exists because some rocks happened to collide. I'm at peace. When it comes, I'll be fine, calm. I'll miss life, though. Especially my family.

I quit politics because I hated it.

I'm a great believer in giving people a chance.

I never want to lose. I hate to lose... But Babe Ruth struck out 1,300 times. You can't hit the home run every time you come up to bat.

I laugh all the time - at things, people, stuff, whatever. But, I don't laugh onstage because then it's serious business.

I kept a diary right after I was born. Day 1: Tired from the move. Day 2: Everyone thinks I'm an idiot.

I intend to live forever. So far, so good.

I remember when the candle shop burned down. Everyone stood around singing 'Happy Birthday.'

For my birthday I got a humidifier and a de-humidifier... I put them in the same room and let them fight it out.

A lot of people are afraid of heights. Not me, I'm afraid of widths.

I've always had to conquer fear when I'm on stage. Basically, I was and still am a very shy person. It's absolutely in conflict with what I do. But once I deliver the first joke I'm okay. It's like I'm out there all by myself just delivering my lines to nobody in particular without ever trying to notice the audience in front of me.

Experience is something you don't get until just after you need it.

It's very intense to be in front of a live audience. It's just an amazing experience. It's dangerous. Everything out there is heightened. The bad stuff is extra-worse. The silences are extra-silent. The good stuff is amazing. It's electric when you walk out there. For 90 minutes, you're on this other planet.

There's something about being in front of a live audience that's fun. It's a really interesting, very electric, very alive, and intense experience, and you can't get it anywhere else. And I've been doing it since I was 23, so it's part of my being - it's part of my fabric as a person.

When I die, I'm leaving my body to science fiction.

Sometimes I wish my first word was 'quote,' so that on my death bed, my last words could be 'end quote.'

When I die, I'm gonna leave my body to science fiction.

I was a peripheral visionary. I could see the future, but only way off to the side.

If God dropped acid, would he see people?

Everywhere is within walking distance if you have the time.

I went to a restaurant that serves 'breakfast at any time'. So I ordered French Toast during the Renaissance.