If I can play a little part in the world's healing, and making it a better place than when I came, then I just thank God for that chance.

The experience of being cared for is profound, and it nourishes the soul as much as the food does the body.

There's so much that you can get mad about. Out of self-preservation, I focus on being grateful.

I'm a size 8, and I feel proud of that, because it's healthy. I've never felt compelled to be a skinny actress.

Sixty-five percent of Americans don't have the conversation with their children. So you're sending off boys and girls off to college, off to high school, off to wherever they go, and nobody's had the conversation about how to conduct themselves. About a man telling his son how to be a man. How to respect a woman. How do you respect yourself?

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

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