As many Europeans and other people from other countries, I have been led into my present activity by a very specific American gift of trade.

Gaiety is one of the most important elements I brought to fashion. I brought it through color.

Today - and it's happening very rapidly - money, wealth, position, birth are of no importance at all. The thing that is important is the individual you are.

Today people are a hundred times more interested in the personality of the person they are with than the clothes he wears.

I think that in the end, the people are not fooled by promotion. They want to know that something works and is right.

I would say that if something has an aesthetic value and it is pleasing to watch or to wear, it may in fact have nothing to do with status symbol. You just like to wear it.

Americans have started a lot of projects around the world and I am one of them.

People have to identify with something to show they have reached a certain goal. Anyway, in Russia it's done with medals. You put on all these medals to show who you are.

I don't think people today need to derive security from possessions.

When a man has seen the aerodynamic shape of a Caravelle jet at an airport, he doesn't need aerodynamic furniture.

I would say that it is a trait by which Americans, searching for things which are different or new, seem to recognize the gift that people may have that cause people do to things.

. . .but he'd seen elite warriors go down in flames enough times to struggle with the sovereignty of God yet yield to it

Television captures the mind but does not liberate it. A good book at once stimulates and frees the mind.

Whatever is not nailed down is mine. What I can pry loose is not nailed down.

MCJOB: A low-pay, low-prestige, low-dignity, no-future job in the service sector. Frequently considered a satisfying career choice for people who have never held one.

Love to throw yourself on the earth and kiss it. Kiss the earth and love it with an unceasing, consuming love.

Things well fitted abide.

Religion is using everything for God.

This use of advertising - to add a subjective value to the product - becomes increasingly important as the trends in our technology lead to competing products becoming more and more the same.

When a tree, a natural product, is felled, is society put into possession of no greater produce than that of the mere labour of the woodman?

I'm much more of a risk taker. I'm more fearless now than when I was 18. I was much more self-aware and I cared too much about what people thought of me and now I really don't. I probably should.