My mother was so beautiful, she really was a a wonderful person. Always walking like a queen. Like she owned the world. Maybe I took something from her.

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.

What did you do to her?” There were a thousand things he’d

One travels to run away from routine, that dreadful routine that kills all imagination and all our capacity for enthusiasm.

I probably have an earlier curfew than anyone. My mom wants to keep me really safe and my dad's not overly protective, but he's a dad no matter what.

It [terrorism] happened because intelligence, leadership and police failures made it possible.

The first time her laughter unfurled its wings in the wind, we knew that the world would never be the same

Russia's now in the middle of a fierce confrontation with Turkey. And that's one of France's NATO allies.

A lot of people meet me and they're like, 'Why aren't you crazy?'

I haven't read the 'Twilight' books. But it's everywhere so I feel like I know it. Edward, Bella, Jacob, etc. but... I haven't read them.

Sexuality and femininity is an accumulation of age and wisdom and comfort in your own skin.

Id like to do a romantic comedy like Notting Hill, which is one of my favorite movies.