“You really have to be satisfied with what you are and accept from life what it still very generously offers you – and notice it, and be glad for it.”

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.

Only by acceptance of the past, can you alter it

Mankind is resilient: the atrocities that horrified us a week ago become acceptable tomorrow.

We need to accept the strangeness of things as they are.

We now accept the fact that learning is a lifelong process of keeping abreast of change. And the most pressing task is to teach people how to learn.

Dear future generations: Please accept our apologies. We were rolling drunk on petroleum.

Giving is most blessed and most acceptable when the donor remains completely anonymous.

If you haven’t the strength to impose your own terms upon life, then you must accept the terms it offers you.

Self-acceptance was the foundation of the happiest time in your life and it was the engine that powered the train.