The vicissitudes of life resemble one of those gilded balls seen in a fountain. Thrown up by the force of the water, it flies up and down - now at the top, catching the rays of the sun, now cast into the depths, then again shooting up, sometimes so high that it escapes altogether, and falls to the ground.

Italians love sun, sin, and spaghetti.

I shall never get used to not being the most beautiful woman in the room. It was an intoxication to sweep in and know every man had turned his head. It kept me in form.

Life is not always not always what one wants it to be., but to make the best of it as it is the only way of being happy.

We owe something to extravagance, for thrift and adventure seldom go hand in hand.

Treat your friends as you do your pictures, and place them in their best light.

You may be a princess or the richest woman in the world, but you cannot be more than a lady.