The most indespensible ingredient of all good home cooking: love for those you are cooking for.

I know how to say 'no' in twelve languages. That's enough for a woman.

You can always dream. Life is full of dreams that you can fulfill.

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.

I was born wise. Street-wise, people-wise, self-wise. This wisdom was my birthright.

I firmly believe we can make our own miracles if we believe strongly enough in ourselves and our mission on earth.

The facts of life are that a child who has seen war cannot be compared with a child who doesn't know what war is except from television.