I was born wise. Street-wise, people-wise, self-wise. This wisdom was my birthright.

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 imagine that the intelligent people are the ones so intelligent that they don't even need or want to look 'intelligent' anymore.

Dear me! how happy and good we'd be, if we had no worries!

Magic is the word illiterates use for phenomena they can’t explain.

The secret of a long life is to never trust a doctor.

A human-being is not a human-being while his tendencies include self-indulgence, covetousness, temper and attacking other people

May our memories of kindness be long and of offenses be short.

I want to be able to write, that's my first love and I don't want to deviate from it even though I probably could have made a lot more money.

At this time, my work on the SPS power supplies had just come to an end; I joined a study group on the pp project and an experimental team studying cooling in a small ring (ICE).

I just want everybody to know, on a personal note, from me, sincerely, it was all his fault.

There are women who have completely transformed my view of fashion and if I hadn't shown them I would never have arrived at this point in fashion, you see.