“After all these years, I am still involved in the process of self-discovery. It’s better to explore life and make mistakes than to play it safe. Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life.”

I’d much rather eat pasta and drink wine than be a size 0.

Beauty is no handicap if you don’t think about it.

The most indespensible ingredient of all good home cooking: love for those you are cooking for.

Beauty is how you feel inside, and it reflects in your eyes. It is not something physical.

Jealousy is a miserable feeling. It means you aspire to something that you cannot have. Even in love, it is better to leave, better not to waste time.

If you can learn to use your mind as well as your powder puff, you will become more truly beautiful.

A mother has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child.

True happiness is impossible without solitude.

Being beautiful can never hurt, but you have to have more. You have to sparkle, you have to be fun, you have to make your brain work if you have one.

The Fountain of Youth is in your mind.

I am lucky. I had a very beautiful mother.

Sex appeal is 50% what you’ve got and 50% what people think you’ve got.

I was born wise. Street-wise, people-wise, self-wise. This wisdom was my birthright.

There is no better love potion than a coffee. When a man drinks the coffee made by you he will become forever yours.

I’ve never tried to block out the memories of the past, even though some are painful. I don’t understand people who hide from their past. Everything you live through helps to make you the person you are now.

Getting ahead in a difficult profession requires avid faith in yourself. That is why some people with mediocre talent, but with great inner drive, go so much further than people with vastly superior talent.

The Crusades – the most signal and most durable monument of human folly that has yet appeared in any age or nation.

Age appears best in four things: old wood to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust and old authors to read.

Baby we are not getting older each day we live our new versions and the new has no age.

My bloody hands that hold on to faith. Learned that we grow with pain and not age.

I don’t age anymore .

I had been playing polo, and I decided to give up at the age of 50.

Books are certainly old fashioned, but only people with a very limited perception are silly enough to condemn ideas because of their age.

We are who we hang out with. Hang with happy people & live a happy life. That’s a secret I learned at a very young age.