I still like me, inside and out. Not in a vain way - I just feel good in my skin.

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

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

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.

We have made Christianity too easy.

There is no excess of goodness. You cannot go too far in the right direction.

No honest poet can ever feel quite sure of the permanent value of what he has written: he may have wasted his time and messed up his life for nothing.

When a man is truly a man, it makes a woman comfortable to truly be a woman.

I was just going at this career - boom, boom, boom! Then all of a sudden, at 38, Oh, my God - I forgot to get married!

If I have a problem, it is this: there is a store where everything costs a dollar.

When a politician says, concerning an issue involving science, that the debate is over, you may be sure the debate is rolling on and not going swimmingly for his side.

My talent is to speak my mind. God won't object if you bury that talent.

Sometimes it comes out in what I call tricksy behavior. That's not always easy to deal with, but it's fascinating. The key thing is to make sure that somebody's tricks don't trip up somebody else.

Always, in your career and personal life, be evolving with technology.