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

Success, I would find out, is interior. It has to do with self-fulfilment and the joy of living.

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

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

Spaghetti can be eaten most successfully if you inhale it like a vacuum cleaner.

Learn to use your brains as deftly as your powder box, and then maybe you have a powder box and do not need it.

Believe me, it is actions that count.

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

Sex without love is ridiculous. Sex follows love, it never precedes it.

Beauty is no handicap if you don't think about it.

The fantasy of a man is the best weapon of a woman.

I still don't know what I want to do when I grow up.

Good food is a celebration of life.

I know how to say 'no' in twelve languages. That's enough for a woman.

If you haven't cried, your eyes can't be beautiful.

The most indispensable ingredient of all good home cooking: love for those you are cooking for.

Mistakes are the price of an interesting life.

Beauty is how you feel inside, and it reflects in your eyes. It is not something physical.

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