Coming eyeball to eyeball with a hummingbird on my terrace is as exciting to me as any celebrity I've met as a result of 'Downton Abbey.'

I sometimes wonder what it would have been like if I'd got 'Downton Abbey' when I was 22.

I wish I could play the piano. I started when I was four and finished when I was five. I got bored. I couldn't tell my left hand from my right back then!

When you look back, I think things are as they are meant to be. Timing is very important.

What most did not understand then was that I was not only married to the man I loved, but I was also married to the movement that I loved.

The only way marriage can work is if a man respects the woman and she is a thinking woman and he wants to work on the marriage.

When I was in law school at Harvard, the Defence of Marriage Act (DOMA) in the U.S. was a big thing. I remember the fight between the army recruiters and Harvard University due to 'Don't ask, don't tell.'

A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.