Good food and a warm kitchen are what makes a house a home. I always tried to make my home like my mother's, because Mom was magnificent at stretching a buck when it came to decorating and food. Like a true Italian, she valued beautification in every area of her life, and I try to do the same.

In heaven an angel is no one in particular.

George Bernard Shaw

I am more and more convinced that our happiness or our unhappiness depends far more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events themselves.

Wilhelm von Humboldt

Only the brave know how to forgive; it is the most refined and generous pitch of virtue human nature can arrive at.

Laurence Sterne

Who makes quick use of the moment is a genius of prudence.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

Worry is a thin stream of fear trickling through the mind. If encouraged, it cuts a channel into which all other thoughts are drained.

Arthur Somers Rache

Politics will sooner or later make fools of everybody.

Dick Armey

The great man of science, unless he is also a philosopher,... deserves the title of genius as little as the man of action.

Otto Weininger

I get bored easily, so I need to do a lot. I've started a record label, so I get to nurture new talent and talk about music, which is a passion of mine. I've written another book. And I get to come to work and do the TV show, which is always really fun.

Ellen DeGeneres

The man form is higher than the angel form of all forms it is the highest. Man is the highest being in creation, because he aspires to freedom.

Paramahansa Yogananda

Accustom yourself continually to make many acts of love, for they enkindle and melt the soul.

Saint Teresa

I find that the Americans have no passions, they have appetites.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The Amateur Marriage grew out of the reflection that of all the opportunities to show differences in character, surely an unhappy marriage must be the richest.

Anne Tyler