All chefs are like Jewish mothers. They want to feed you and feed you and impress you. It's an eagerness to please.

I always loved my bangles, I can't remember a time when I didn't have a bangle on.

I know most people use their phones to tell time, but there's something very romantic and beautiful about a timepiece.

Where is it written that a smart woman can't also be stacked?

I love clothes, but really I don't have that much to say about skirts. Before I was writing, I went to fashion shows only when the designer was a good friend and I was there to show support.

The best thing you can do for someone is make them a beautiful plate of food. How else can you invade someone's body without actually touching them?

Beauty is no accomplishment on its own. It's what you do with it.

I've always had a fantasy to write a cookbook, because everyone wants to know what a model eats.

I'm not tough. I'm tenacious.

It doesn't matter how precisely the onion is cut as long as the person chewing it is happy.

Women's voices not being heard is the root of many of the problems of the world.

The Gospel is the good news, not the grouse news. Preaching is not beating, it´s informing in a christlike way.

Consistency is contrary to nature contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are the dead.

I've often been accused by critics of being myself on-screen. But being oneself is more difficult than you'd suppose.

Nothing like a little disaster for sorting things out.

Remembering and seeing are not the same, and that is why memories are of little use to us in forming loving relationships.

My guiding principle is that prosperity can be shared. We can create wealth together. The global economy is not a zero-sum game.

I'm a world expert on superhero comics. I think maybe only Michael Chabon knows more than me.

Editorial photography has to be energetic and visually competitive.

What is normal? Normal is only ordinary; mediocre. Life belongs to the rare, exceptional individual who dares to be different.

The way to make money in the stock market is to buy a stock. Then, when it goes up, sell it. If it's not going to go up, don't buy it!