I don't believe in anti-aging creams. I believe the skin should be clean, should be nourished, but most of all you should eat the right things.

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.

No one knows anything, really. It's all rented, or borrowed.

They never tell you about that either. How the hardest thing a mother has to do is give her child up, let them go, watch them run.

I travel fairly lightly because you have to these days. I always take a laptop and an iPod so I can watch movies and listen to music. And my Gameboy. That's a good time-killer.

Well, considering my entire life, now seems rules by odd coincidences, I figure it's right on track.

If loving you is wrong, then I'll just like you a whole bunch!

I don't think coolness used to be such a commodity among adults. And now it is.

If you make enough bad decisions, every once in a while things work out for you.

Sometimes, I get in a mindset where I don't like my own music. I hate yourself and my music because I'm doing it every day. I feel like a clown.

Augustine started from God's grace and got it right, Pelagius started from human effort and got it wrong. Augustine passionately pursued God; Pelagius methodically worked to please God.

I go out partying to figure out exactly who I'm making music for. You can't just guess.