Elegance is the balance between PROPORTION, EMOTION & SURPRISE.

I know what women want. They want to be beautiful.

Only wear clothes that make you feel alive.

When I entertain at home, I take time and pleasure in the small details that make all the difference. Entertaining is about giving to people and sharing with them.

I am especially grateful that I have been able to keep my own style over the decades, in spite of the many changes that have taken place in the world of fashion and in its business.

I am like a freight train. Working on the details, twisting them and playing with them over the years, but always staying on the same track.

There are only three things I can do - make a dress, decorate a house, and entertain people.

I put the number 7 on my t-shirt because this is the number of my championships but also because it was the number of Barry Sheene, who was a great hero of mine and a truly great racer.

An evening dress that reveals a woman's ankles while walking is the most disgusting thing I have ever seen.

I like things simple.

My normal life is like being on holiday.

It's a limitless new world, and we are only just beginning to explore it.

The various modes of worship which prevailed in the Roman world were all considered by the people as equally true by the philosopher as equally false and by the magistrate as equally useful.

Power is so characteristically calm, that calmness in itself has the aspect of strength.

Plenty of times, I haven't been able to wear certain clothes because they didn't come in my size.

When I was five or six, I asked to sing at a big family party, and ever since I got up there in front of everyone in my suit - it had a blue collar, like in 'Scarface' - I had the bug.

I always see other people as predecessors and admire them.

Oh, I get lucky a lot. I get lucky at four in the morning in the law library.

My fast is a matter between God and myself.

I think if you look back through the intellectual history of human beings you can trace the way that intellectual technologies influence the way we think.

Things which of themselves avail nothing, when united become powerful.