“I was in a fashion show and I had on a strapless top.”

I don’t know how I’m sitting here right now speaking English.

Brazilian women are taught to take care of themselves.

Lingerie is one of the most important pieces of your wardrobe.

You know, every work has the bad side, and people will be mean to you, and when you’re young, you don’t know how to defend yourself.

I travel a lot, and at the beginning it was really fun.

Be sure what you want and be sure about yourself.

A man needs to be polite, not just to me but to everyone.

I like to travel all over the world and learn [about] new cultures.

I love cakes. Chocolate and coconut cakes. I love that combination!

Brazilian women love expressing their beauty through makeup.

They start their beauty routine at a young age, which is the key to aging beautifully.

When I got to the end the top was down.

You have to believe in yourself and be strong.

We also try to teach them both Portuguese and Serbian, though English is their primary language.

I thought I was too skinny. But I went in and got the job! And that’s how I started.

My understanding of busy has certainly changed! My daughters have had an incredible impact on my life and the way I live it.

So what if you end up buying a size 6 instead of a 4? You can always cut out the label at home, and you’ll pretty soon forget whatever that number was because you’ll be too busy admiring how fantastic you look.

Now is the moment that never ends.

If you get the dirty end of the stick, sharpen it and turn it into a useful tool.

I am enslaved to my work, always wanting the impossible, and never, I believe, have I been less favoured by the endlessly changeable weather.

If you chuck away too many things, you end up discovering there was value in them.

In the end, our worship is more about what we do than what we say.

Success is all a matter of perspective. It depends on where you start from, and where you want to end up.

The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party, when the masks are dropped.