Success, I would find out, is interior. It has to do with self-fulfillment and the joy of living.

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.

We love out of compassion, passion or a sense of commitment.

You can save people's lives but you can't save them from life!

Part of the middle class promise is that, after a lifetime of hard work, you'll be able to retire and enjoy the fruits of that labor. Medicare was established to secure that promise.

I'm a huge fan of Big L. He is my favorite rapper.

If you don't develop your skill at enjoying what you have, you won't be any happier when you get more.

If you think about it, the historian's task is like that of the detective.

We felt like we had done as much as you can do with the slasher genre. We were trying to find the next group of scary movies that were ripe for parody.

Nothing anyone says in a bar is true.

If the thumbnail version of the Iraq war was that Bush lied about WMD, the thumbnail version of Obama's war in Afghanistan is that the generals pushed him into a war he didn't want to fight.

There's always a chance, a goal to make something different and get it right, finally.