Jealousy is a miserable feeling. It means you aspire to something that you cannot have. Even in love, it is better to leave, better not to waste time.

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 scraps of information she’d gathered knocked against each other, like balls in a pinball machine in one of the arcades on the front. Secrets drew her in every time – the unsaid.

Conversation, like certain portions of the anatomy, always runs more smoothly when lubricated.

I go back to my room and lie under the covers, trying not to think of Gale and thinking of nothing else.

Nobody really wants to be alone. People need people.

I never tried to stage, to fabricate an image.

I don't want to work. I want to smoke.

Money and fame that photography can bring you are wonderful, but nothing can compare to the joy of seeing something new.

What is important is not victory or the position of a victor, but rather the labor of striving towards God and devotion to Him.

Sometimes I have no choice but to wear my hair and I try to make it look as normal as possible, but no, there's no chance.

I dream of a free, democratic, peaceful Tunisia, a country that can protect its developing identity.