For goodness sakes, beware of curls… It is a great art to do them so that the girls not only look modern - but do not suddenly look very vulgar.

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.

…And my heart openedlike a flower under sky, its petals of desire, its stamens of dreams…

Cages come in lots of different colors and shapes. Some are gilded, while others have a slamming door. But golden handcuffs are still handcuffs.

A person's genetic endowment, a product of the evolution of the species, is said to explain part of the workings of his mind and his personal history the rest.

Practice means making an effort to keep your mind steady. Yoga is about learning to pay attention. That's what drives transformation.

I've always been interested in an idea of boundless love - an impersonal, big love.

I speak African. I can even speak Italian.

With some of the bad things that come with love, there's also a lot of good. For example that connection... which I struggle to have with most people.

Romances I ne'er read like those I have seen.

A vast black sleep falls over my life sleep, all hope sleep, all desire.

A book that is shut is but a block.