I have never judged myself by other people’s standards. I have always expected a great deal of myself, and if I fail, I fail myself.

I can cook, I can breathe, I can live!

Mistakes are a part of the dues one pays for a full life.

Sex appeal is 50% what you've got and 50% what people think you've got.

A woman's dress should be like a barbed-wire fence: serving its purpose without obstructing the view.

Everything you live through helps to make you the person you are now.

Cooking is an act of love, a gift, a way of sharing with others the little secrets -- 'piccoli segreti' -- that are simmering on the burners.