True love comes along after adolescence, when we have learned not to cry for nothing.

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.

It’s a difficult thing having a heart made of glass

... you should never give yourself a chance to fall apart because, when you do, it becomes a tendency and it happens over and over again. You must practice staying strong, instead.

Colleen had this idea -- a faded, crumpled, smudged idea -- that being nice counted for something.

It's inhuman to take your books away before you know the end.

...The body is affected by the image of the thing, in the same way as if the thing were actually present.

Aging will create the music of the coming century.

Of all bad listeners, the worst and most terrible to encounter is the man who is so fond of listening that he wishes to hear, not only your conversation, but that of every other person in the room.

If I want to wear a long flowing dress, someone will say I'm pregnant.

Memphis was almost like going to California. Beale Street was the black man's street.

I had this song called Helter Skelter, which is just a ridiculous song. So we did it like that, 'cuz I like noise.