I'd much rather eat pasta and drink wine than be a size 0.

I think what you have inside reflects very much in your face, in your expression. If you can find a kind of equilibrium in life, you never really get old, because you have that kind of ingenuity and innocence inside that gives you that brightness and that glint in your eye that generally, getting older, you lose.

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

Good food is a celebration of life.

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

True happiness is impossible without solitude.... I need solitude in my life as I need food and drink and the laughter of little children. Extravagant though it may sound, solitude is the filter of my soul. It nourishes me, and rejuvenates me. Left alone, I discovered that I keep myself good company.

The two big advantages I had at birth were to have been born wise and to have been born in poverty.