Blue jeans are the most beautiful things since the gondola.

The only real elegance is in the mind; if you've got that, the rest really comes from it.

You don't have to be born beautiful to be wildly attractive.

The bikini is the most important thing since the atom bomb.

The two greatest mannequins of the century were Gertrude Stein and Edith Sitwell - unquestionably. You just couldn't take a bad picture of those two old girls

There's only one very good life and that's the life you know you want and you make it yourself.

A world without leopards, well, who would want to live in it?

Red is the great clarifier - bright and revealing. I can't imagine becoming bored with red - it would be like becoming bored with the person you love.

You're not supposed to give people what they want, you're supposed to give them what they don't know that they want yet.

The first thing to do is to arrange to be born in Paris. After that, everything follows quite naturally.

Elegance is innate. It has nothing to do with being well dressed. Elegance is refusal.

Compassion is a verb.

Ah, I see. You don't know much about us and the unknown equals the barbaric, the primitive. Although it is you lot who are ignorant.

The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.

To scorn philosophy is truly to philosophize.

What else is chance but the rude stone which receives its life from the sculptor's hand? Providence gives us chance, and man must mould it to his own designs.

Good befalls us while we sleep, sometimes.

Intemperance weaves the winding-sheet of souls.

He who does not see things in their depth should not call himself a radical.

We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.

Meditation is focused attention and the more we practise focusing our brains the more connections we build up.