If you want peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.

The minute you got the Nobel Peace Prize, things that I said yesterday, with nobody paying too much attention, I say the same things after I got it - oh! It was quite crucial for people, and it helped our morale because apartheid did look invincible.

I don't think I've ever felt that same kind of peace, the kind of serenity that I felt after acknowledging that maybe I was going to die of this TB.

Peace comes when you talk to the guy you most hate. And that's where the courage of a leader comes, because when you sit down with your enemy, you as a leader must already have very considerable confidence from your own constituency.

I am not interested in picking up crumbs of compassion thrown from the table of someone who considers himself my master. I want the full menu of rights.

We are volcanoes. When we women offer our experience as our truth, as human truth, all the maps change. There are new mountains.

Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone; it has to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new.

If science fiction is the mythology of modern technology, then its myth is tragic.

There's a good deal in common between the mind's eye and the TV screen, and though the TV set has all too often been the boobtube, it could be, it can be, the box of dreams.

I talk about the gods, I am an atheist. But I am an artist too, and therefore a liar. Distrust everything I say. I am telling the truth.

It is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception and compassion and hope.

As great scientists have said and as all children know, it is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception, and compassion, and hope.

I doubt that the imagination can be suppressed. If you truly eradicated it in a child, he would grow up to be an eggplant.

My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool; it gives me all the world, and exiles me from it.

If the food of friendship is time together, how do we make the time to ensure we're all fed? My friends and I have recently come across a way to keep each other close. It fits into our lifestyles despite busy schedules and a surfeit of children. We call it the 'kibbutz.'

I'm better with my hands, and I always loved the slightly romantic idea of starting with bits of wood and being able to create something to sit on, to eat from, to store your clothes in.

I'm probably a bit romantic about it, but I think we humans miss having contact with fire. We need it.

What I've enjoyed most, though, is meeting people who have a real interest in food and sharing ideas with them. Good food is a global thing and I find that there is always something new and amazing to learn - I love it!

The public health of five million children should not be left to luck or chance.

If Obama wanted to make radical changes to America's health long-term, all he has to do is treble the price of sugar and salt.

My first outdoor cooking memories are full of erratic British summers, Dad swearing at a barbecue that he couldn't put together, and eventually eating charred sausages, feeling brilliant.

If you only design menus that are essentially junk or fast food, the whole infrastructure supports junk.

Stop being a vegan and start enjoying what you eat.

Just because the Americans are so good at rattling out accessible and cheap junk food, nobody looks twice when it comes to their food. But there are golden nuggets everywhere.

The kitchen oven is reliable, but it's made us lazy.

I love that feeling of just finishing a workout and knowing I'm taking care of my body. It is such a good feeling.

Live in the moment, day by day, and don't stress about the future. People are so caught up in looking into the future, that they kind of lose what's in front of them.

I've probably tried every fad diet in the world.

At one point, I even thought, 'Oh, I'll take diet pills.' I tried it for one day, and I thought my heart was going to explode. It's awful, and I would never, ever recommend it.

My book 'Ali Pasha' tells the true story of a young sailor Henry Friston, who, in the hell-fire of battle, forms an unusual friendship.

From an early age, I had always loved drawing. Laying on the floor, in front of the fire, drawing from my imagination, marching soldiers, dive bombers, spaceships and monsters. Now, suddenly, I was drawing from real life!

On the death of his brothers, my dad lied about his age and joined the army in 1918. He was in the trenches long enough to be gassed and contract the early stages of tuberculosis from which he would eventually die just before my birth.

Love can sometimes be magic. But magic can sometimes... just be an illusion.

The same people who can deny others everything are famous for refusing themselves nothing.

The groundwork of all happiness is health.

Stolen kisses are always sweetest.

Great woman belong to history and to self sacrifice.

There are two worlds: the world we can measure with line and rule, and the world that we feel with our hearts and imagination.

Colors are the smiles of nature.

If you are ever at a loss to support a flagging conversation, introduce the subject of eating.

Likings arise when one has no earthly reason for liking - the most wildly improbable marriages and uncommon friendship.

Take a newspaper account of Waterloo or Trafalgar, with all the small advertisements: it seems much more real than reading about it in a history book.

My writing partner, Nicki, and I became obsessed with a monologist who performs unscripted shows equipped with nothing more than scribbled bullet points and a glass of water. We wrote him a fan letter and found ourselves sharing lunch and eventually a friendship.

The more Mommy blogs going nuclear over playground etiquette I read and birthday parties of glazed adults munching cupcakes like demoralized zombies I attend, I realize this is what my friends who conceived before me meant by, 'You just won't care.'

Valentine's Day: Rubbing singles' noses in their lack of a mate and the noses of couples in their lack of time.

When you are happy you can forgive a great deal.

Family is the most important thing in the world.

What must it be like for a little boy to read that daddy never loved mummy?

Nothing brings me more happiness than trying to help the most vulnerable people in society. It is a goal and an essential part of my life - a kind of destiny. Whoever is in distress can call on me. I will come running wherever they are.

If you find someone you love in your life, then hang on to that love.