Even the fried chicken is great cold.

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.

One moment of true happiness was worth all the moments of pain. (Jessica)

Whatever time mother goes to heaven, it is always too soon. Fortunately, she is forever.

Any writer who gives a reader a pleasurable experience is doing every other writer a favor because it will make the reader want to read other books. I am all for it.

Worry a little bit every day and in a lifetime you will lose a couple of years. If something is wrong, fix it if you can. But train yourself not to worry: Worry never fixes anything.

I grew up in Chicago on the South Side, and had a ton of freedom, just did whatever I wanted, whenever I wanted. At the risk of sounding dopey, I would say it was blissful.

Lives that flash in sunshine, and lives that are born in tears, receive their hue from circumstances.

A lot of things are yours, America

Conservatism is the antidote to tyranny precisely because its principles are the founding principles.

I was the darkest skinned person in my family. I remember how I used to feel - like I wasn't pretty enough, or I wasn't good enough.

If God is, why is there evil? But if God is not, why is there good?