Where youthful beauty is unconscious, mature beauty is knowing and sophisticated.

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 health of your future kids does not start with their birth—it starts with you, right now, well before you plan to impregnate your wife.

It's bad to grow old before your time. It's worse to not grow at all within your mind,

Lilith opened the shutters and allowed herself to bathe in the bright moonlight, as it shone across the Highland Glen.

Do you think there's such a thing as a ghost who masquerades as a person? Do you believe that there are people whose bodies are still alive here on earth but whose souls are already in hell?

The unconscious can become destructive if it is disregarded and thwarted.

The fact that some people are opposed on religious grounds mainly, well, that doesn't bother me as long as they're not allowed to influence other people by force or by whatever other means.

I cant look at things in the simple, large way that great poets do.

I have had a great deal of interaction with Koreans and feel a fairly strong bond with Korea.

I should have mixed something stronger than Coke floats.

I've never gotten any complaints about my headscarf from a man. You can be sexy with a head wrap!