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

“If you haven't cried, your eyes cannot be beautiful”

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

“There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of people you love. When you learn to tap this source, you will truly have defeated age.”

“When you are a mother, you are never really alone in your thoughts. You are connected to your child and to all those who touch your lives. A mother always has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child.”

“I've never tried to block out the memories of the past, even though some are painful. I don't understand people who hide from their past. Everything you live through helps to make you the person you are now.”

“Everything you see I owe to spaghetti.”