I always wear my sweater back-to-front; it is so much more flattering.

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.

Two puzzles that cannot be solved:The miracle of birth and misery of death.

I was very afraid of failure because if you fail at something you love, then you ruin what you love.

Big stuff and little: learning how to order breakfast in a country where I don't speak the language and haven't been before - that's really satisfying to me. I like that.

I just heard a story from someone the other day where somebody was beaten up by Christians for wearing one of our shirts. Of course, that's a very Christian thing to do.

But what Freud showed us… was that nothing can be grasped, destroyed, or burnt, except in a symbolic way, as one says, in effigie, in absentia.

In times to resist, do not step aside; stay solid like a statue! In times to step aside, do not resist; be flexible like a snake!

I'm a collector. I was born a collector. I came out of the womb a collector. I can trace it back to childhood - collecting used keys.

I like to sing to Verdi, I like singing to Sibelius, and Mahler maybe.

We Dutch, we like to have an opinion, a strong opinion. We think we know everything better.

In True Balance Sonia Choquette takes the mystery out of staying balanced, both physically and spiritually. She offers a clear explanation of our chakras and how they influence our daily lives.