Nana Mouskouri

I do believe that if you haven't learnt about sadness, you cannot appreciate happiness.

The Berlin Wall go down, that was the most wonderful thing that could happen, absolutely. I celebrated with everybody in Berlin that day when the Wall was down.

It's nice to look good, but the most important thing is to be you.

Of all the haunting moments of motherhood, few rank with hearing your own words come out of your daughter's mouth.

As a young child my attention span was, as I remember it, rather short.

You have to have really wide reading habits and pay attention to the news and just everything that's going on in the world: you need to. If you get this right, then the writing is a piece of cake.