I hated my father all my life but in his final days I forgave him for all the suffering he caused us. As you grow older, marry, and have children of you own, you learn and forget. I do not forget easily, but I do forgive.

Ignorance has its virtues; without it there'd be mighty little conversation.

Until you lose your mother you don't know what it is.

You really have to be satisfied with what you are and accept from life what it still very generously offers you - and notice it, and be glad for it.

My mother taught me to walk proud and tall 'as if the world was mine.'

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

Everything you see I owe to spaghetti.