I always knew I wanted to make my own way; I never wanted to be dependent on my father.

My motto is: feel the fear and do it anyway.

I don't really care about gossip. I care about building great businesses.

The truth is that we all have lives that are complicated. We all get hurt by people we love sometimes. It's laughable to believe that anyone is immune. The important thing is how you behave.

Its important for women to work. They need to keep their independence, to keep earning and being challenged.

The reality is that I spent years in the factories in Italy when I first set up Jimmy Choo. Today, everyone who has a job at Jimmy Choo, I've done their job - right down to the cleaner.

The thing about Uggs is that they're so comfortable. Once you've worn them, you don't want to go back.

A little jewellery on a man is OK, although he should never wear too much. Every man should always have a great watch.

I think it takes 30 years to build a luxury brand.

My daughter is my passion and my life.

It's amazing how much resilience you can have when you're passionate about a project that you're doing.

Life is painful and disappointing. It is useless, therefore, to write new realistic novels. We generally know where we stand in relation to reality and don’t care to know any more.

I was born with an adult head and a tiny body. Like a 'Peanuts' character.

The power of fasting is miraculous.

Claire's face looking pretty and serene, as if she were gifted with a madness that left her ignorant of worry.

The survival of liberty in our land increasingly depends on the success of liberty in other lands. The best hope for peace in our world is the expansion of freedom in all the world.

I'd love to go to art school. I'd love to learn how to draw. I'd love to be fluent in Spanish. I'd like to be a brain surgeon.

God has no cousins, only children.

When you lose the capacity to dream, you lose the capacity to love, and the energy to love is lost.

I have been so naughted in Thy Love's existence that my nonexistence is a thousand times sweeter than my existence

Hiroshima does not look like a bombed city. It looks as if a monster steamroller had passed over it and squashed it out of existence.