The older you get, the more you should learn to love life and appreciate the beauty that comes with age.

It is more important to be pretty as a woman than to be fashionable.

New York seemed as young as I was and infinitely hospitable.

The best-dressed man is an Italian who is trying to look English, or an Englishman who is trying to look Italian.

I used to be very insecure about my curly hair, because I lived in a country where everybody had blonde straight hair.

Resisting a beautiful chocolate cake or a wonderful foie gras is as difficult as (the idea of) saying no to Paul Newman.

When I was a little girl, if I didn't eat my soup, my mother would say, 'You have to think of all the Chinese children who have nothing to eat.' But now, for my children, Chinese people make everything, and for my grandchildren, they buy everything.