I am very shy. When I go to a charity ball, I don't mind if people look at my sleeves. I mind terribly if I have to say something.

Elegance isn't solely defined by what you wear. It's how you carry yourself, how you speak, what you read.

Do you know what elegance is? It is not only what you're wearing. It is how you wear it. who you are inside.

Age is something only in your head or a stereotype. Age means nothing when you are passionate about something.

Always choose style over fashion: wear something that makes you look beautiful.

Fashion is to please your eye. Shapes and proportions are for your intellect.

Fashion has always been a repetition of ideas, but what makes it new is the way you put it together.

I don't get my inspiration from books or a painting. I get it from the women I meet.

Mistakes in life teach you how to succeed because you want to try again and do it better.

A wedding dress is both an intimate and personal for a woman - it must reflect the personality and style of the bride.

Money doesn't buy elegance. You can take an inexpensive sheath, add a pretty scarf, gray shoes, and a wonderful bag, and it will always be elegant.

Hope is the belief more or less strong that joy will come desire is the wish it may come.

You're 40 and he's 22. Do you have to marry him? Couldn't you just adopt him?

Our masks, always in peril of smearing or cracking, in need of continuous check in the mirror or silverware, keep us in thrall to ourselves, concerned with our surfaces.

You'll only find happy endings in books. Some books.

The greatest test of life is obedience to God.

Psychoanalysis will fade away just as mesmerism and phrenology did, and for the same reason - its exploded pretensions will deprive it of recruits

Wrong. Enemies don't fight with such determined passion. That kind of focus is reserved for friends at odds with one another." pg 69 Tomas to Vlad

Occasionally now I feel a wang that goes in my head - once you've got it you've got it. The [illness] was quite severe, leaving me deeply unhappy and frightened.

Life doesn't stop after losing someone, but it goes on without them differently.

You can change your life, because you have an unlimited ability to think and talk about what you love, and so you have an unlimited ability to bring everything good in life to you.