True love comes along after adolescence, when we have learned not to cry for nothing.

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.

I'm very susceptible to sex appeal.

Getting ahead in a difficult profession requires avid faith in yourself.

I am against all war.

Any woman can look her best if she feels good in her skin. It's not a question of clothes or makeup. It's how she sparkles.

When I was a child, fear was common to my life - fear of having nothing to eat, fear of the other children taunting me at school because I was illegitimate, and particularly fear of the big bombers appearing overhead and dropping their lethal bursts from the sky.