“I have no regrets. regret only makes wrinkles.”

Nothing makes a woman more beautiful than the belief that she is beautiful.

Learn to use your brains as deftly as your powder box, and then, perhaps, powder box you will not need. Know smart women men say beautiful – eyes snatched from the crowd and do not forget just charming.

I was so skinny, they gave me the nickname stechetto – the stick. I was tall, thin, ugly and dark like an Arab girl. I looked strange. All eyes. No flesh on my bones.

Until you lose your mother you don’t know what it is.

I eat a lot of salad, a little meat, and some fruit—that’s all. But I like sweets.

Cooking is an act of love, a gift, a way of sharing with others the little secrets — ‘piccoli segreti’ — that are simmering on the burners.

Ignorance has its virtues; without it there’d be mighty little conversation.

The girl who swears no one has ever made love to her has a right to swear.

The two big advantages I had at birth were to have been born wise and to have been born in poverty.

The right hairstyle can make a plain woman beautiful and a beautiful woman unforgettable.

I was not interested in what I could bring to myself by being an actress, but in what I could bring out of myself.

You have to be born a sex symbol. You don’t become one. If you’re born with it, you’ll have it even when you’re 100 years old.

Style must be adapted to the woman and not vice versa. The same can be said of clothes.

The eyes of a woman who never cried can not be beautiful.

Physical exercise makes you more graceful. After some gymnasitics you walk as if the whole street is yours.

Hate is unfulfilled love.

Do not feel sad for your tears as rocks never regret the waterfalls.

Life is full of regrets, but it doesn’t pay to look back.

I avoid looking back. I prefer good memories to regrets.

A safe life includes following your dreams with the full knowledge that doing so is not, in any way, shape or form, safe in the traditional meaning of the word. Because living safely means dying without too many regrets. That is safe.

I never regret my past. Only time I wasted was on the wrong people.

If you are afraid to take a chance, take one anyway. What you don’t do can create the same regrets as the mistakes you make.

I would rather regret the things that I have done than the things that I have not.

When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.