For me, it is good to be vulnerable. It makes me nice... weak sometimes, but in a good way, not a tragic way.

I am lucky. I had a very beautiful mother.

Everything you see I owe to spaghetti.

After all these years, I am still involved in the process of self-discovery. It's better to explore life and make mistakes than to play it safe. Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life.

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.

My mother taught me the most important principles, to be determined in life, to be disciplined, to be able to understand that there are some things that you can't do and other things you have to do, that you always have to be surrounded by love, that you have to be understanding.

Where youthful beauty is unconscious, mature beauty is knowing and sophisticated.