I did not plan to have such a career in the fashion world. All that I wanted, was to have ten kids and raise them!

How can you live the high life if you do not wear the high heels?

Perfume follows you; it chases you and lingers behind you. It's a reference mark. Perfume makes silence talk.

You can create fashion everywhere in the world, but the place where you are crowned is Paris.

Perfume is like a parenthesis, a moment of freedom, peace, love and sensuality in between the disturbances of modern living.

It doesn't matter one damn bit whether fashion is art or not. You don't question whether an incredible chef is an artist or not-his cakes are delicious and that's all that matters.

I don't like women who are multiform, who wear many different shapes. Women who retain a unique shape are usually unique people.

The essence of seduction for me in a man, although it stems from his rough, almost rough-neck looks, still contains something of the woman: he must be seductive and intelligent.

I think in the darkest moments, we need a break.

Being one step ahead of a fashion trend is not so important to me. What matters is to always forge ahead.

I was rather free, and I always did what I wanted to do, sometimes without listening to the people who warned me not to do this or that.

When you give appreciation IN ORDER TO get something– it's manipulation and people can sense it. Appreciate genuinely.

...talent is evenly distributed. You never know how many talented people are out there until you invite and inspire them to be creative.

Some gifts are baits! Watch out!

...but there was never enough time to read. The great irony of working in a library.

What? I know I’m old enough to be his mother – his young mother, ” she added. “I can still appreciate an attractive man!

My mother and stepfather were married 43 years, so I have watched a long marriage. I feel like I had a very good role model for that. And, you know, it's just a number.

For centuries the word 'nature' has been used to bolster prejudices or to express, not reality, but a state of affairs that the user would wish to see.

The good we have enjoyed from Heaven's free will, and shall we murmur to endure the ill?

You can get totally messed up trying to please everyone with what you do, but ultimately, you have to please yourself.

I think I've become a much better singer and a much better player. Years and years of playing a couple of hours every day will do that.