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

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

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.

Spaghetti can be eaten most successfully if you inhale it like a vacuum cleaner.

As often as we do good, we sacrifice.

The second-sweetest set of three words in English is 'I don't know.'

But quiet to quick bosoms is a hell.

Liabilities are just assets in hiding.

If you are weak in the endgame, you must spend more time analysing studies; in your training games you must aim at transposing to endgames, which will help you to acquire the requisite experience.

Nothing is more repugnant to me than brotherly feelings grounded in the common baseness people see in one another.

I care more about getting this right [NHS reform] than I do about getting it done.

Too much attention on problems kills our faith in possibilities.

Progressives are overreacting .Underreacting, though, to the - what the real threats are, and the real opportunities.

The novelist, quite rightly, fears the psychoanalyst as both an enemy and a usurper.