Almost starve, but I don’t starve because I eat very much

Nothing makes a woman more beautiful than the belief that she is beautiful.

Beauty is how you feel inside, and it reflects in your eyes. It is not something physical.

Any woman can look her best if she feels good in her skin. It's not a question of clothes or makeup. It's how she sparkles.

I'd much rather eat pasta and drink wine than be a size 0.

You have to enjoy life. Always be surrounded by people that you like, people who have a nice conversation. There are so many positive things to think about.

The most indespensible ingredient of all good home cooking: love for those you are cooking for.

Everything you see I owe to spaghetti.

When you are a mother, you are never really alone in your thoughts. A mother always has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child.

Learn to use your brains as deftly as your powder box, and then maybe you have a powder box and do not need.

A woman's dress should be like a barbed-wire fence: serving its purpose without obstructing the view.

the day you will loose your tongue

Never compete with any man but yourself. Seek to develop yourself.

You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.

I pay taxes in three countries, but can't vote in any of them.

I don't know a whole lot about symbolism. There seems to me to be a potential danger in symbolism. I feel more comfortable with metaphors and similes.

Long exercise, my friend, inures the mind; And what we once disliked we pleasing find.

Integrity eclipses image.

The stimulus was a case of political patronage, corporate welfare, and cronyism at their worst.

My worst fear is that I'll end up living in some run-down duplex on Wilshire wearing pants hiked up to my nipples and muttering under my breath.

If people won't spend any money, the government has this moral obligation to do it.