Chocolate is the first luxury. It has so many things wrapped up in it: Deliciusness in the moment, childhood memories, and that grin-inducing feeling of getting a reward for being good.

No one can tell you who you are and what you are made of, only you yourself know what you are made of, and only you yourself can do the work to become who you want to be.

Over half a million women are raped in this country every year, and only a fraction of them report it because they're too ashamed. It’s a really screwed up world, but its not your fault, and what happened to you, it doesn't make you the monster.

Italian culture is so deeply soaked in an appreciation of the good things in life.

I definitely have my days where I look like I got dressed in the dark.

Becoming a parent erased many of my negative childhood feelings and filled them in with something new.

Kids who drink alcohol, fairly regularly before they're 14 have a 48% chance... of becoming alcoholics.