I'm a giraffe. I even walk like a giraffe with a long neck and legs. It's a pretty dumb animal, mind you.

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.

I don't want anyone to look to me, not for protection, not for happiness, not for love, not for anything.

Prayers and love are learned in the hour when prayer has become impossible and your heart has turned to stone.

Let's be incomplete together.

I went through a phase where I thought nostalgia was a bad thing.

Remember, whatever we put our attention on expands in our experience, so consider where you are focusing your time and energy.

Nobody wants to open a business near a Superfund site and risk being sued

The United States is the most innovative country in the world. But our leadership could slip away if we fail to properly fund primary, secondary and higher education.

To break training without permission is an act of treason.

The enlargement of liberty for individual human beings must be the supreme goal and abiding practice of any western society.

Only the real, rare, true scientific minds can endure doubt, which is attached to all our knowledge.