I'll tell you what I was like as a child. I was a good person. I was high-spirited but I was a big reader.

My clothes have a story. They have an identity. They have a character and a purpose. That's why they become classics. Because they keep on telling a story. They are still telling it.

You have a more interesting life if you wear impressive clothes.

The fight is no longer between the classes or between rich and poor but between the idiots and the eco-conscious.

Buy less. Choose well. Make it last. Quality, not quantity. Everybody's buying far too many clothes.

Fashion is very important. It is life-enhancing and, like everything that gives pleasure, it is worth doing well.

It is extremely difficult to say how long the process actually took to finally achieve my fragrance, Boudoir, because there was a lot of time waiting around for other people.

I'm not trying to do something different, I'm trying to do the same thing but in a different way

I am attracted to people who make this effort in knowing what suits them - they are individual and stylish.

Buy less, choose well: that's the maxim. Quality not quantity. That's the most environmentally friendly thing you can do.

The sexiest people are thinkers. Nobody's interested in somebody who's just vain with a hole in their head, talking about the latest thing - there is no latest thing. It's all rubbish.

Don't look to a husband or a child or a friend or your family to make you happy. It is not within their capacity to do so.

It is spectacular to watch an erupting volcano

But to begin again? No, Virginia. There can be no beginning again. Love and forgiveness are not the same thing.

I am a misanthrope and yet utterly benevolent, have more than one screw loose yet am a super-idealist who digests philosophy more efficiently than food.

The greatest scientists are artists as well.

When two friends part they should lock up each other's secrets and exchange keys. The truly noble mind has no resentments.

Law cannot organize labor and industry without organizing injustice.

Only love can penetrate all your karmas and resistances and set your heart on fire with the awareness of its true nature.

Ninety percent of the trouble in this world comes from guys who think they have something to prove.

You have something special, you have GREATNESS within you!