Though poor and anxious to work, I refused to alter anything. They would take me as I looked or not at all.... Eventually I profited by looking like myself and not like what was fashionable years ago with certain film technicians in Rome.

Physical exercise makes you more graceful. After some gymnasitics you walk as if the whole street is yours.

If you can learn to use your mind as well as your powder puff, you will become more truly beautiful.

Nothing makes a woman more beautiful than the belief that she is beautiful.

When you are a mother, you are never really alone in your thoughts. A mother always has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child.

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.

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.