I'm happier about my friends than I am about my work. I still have a long way to go with work. My friends, that's the one thing I'm sure about.

Fashion will last forever. It will exist always. It will exist in its own way in each era. I live in the moment. It's interesting to know the old methods. But you have to live in the present moment.

When I see beautiful clothes, I want to keep them, preserve them... Clothes, like architecture and art, reflect an era.

I make clothes, women make fashion.

It's important to make women feel confident, because I think they are more important than men.

My obsession is to make women beautiful. When you create with that in mind, things can't go out of fashion.

I like black, because for me it is a very happy color.

Perfection is never achieved, so you need to go on working.

I am never sure that anythings good enough. Something that is good today will not be good tomorrow.

I think women should be seductive, not triste. Theres enough sadness in life now without making women look sad, too.

There is a sensuality about fabric. I think all materials should be inviting when they touch the skin. When I watch children stroking their mothers clothes, I feel that I have succeeded.

...it is often more difficult to remember to be mindful than to be mindful itself. (p. 47)

I really need a gin and tonic.

We come into the world alone and we die alone. Why, in life, should we be any less alone?

We are more concerned about looking stupid (fear of people) than we are about acting sinfully (fear of the Lord).

I've written some great things. That's a gift, but there's consequences. Yeah, you get this great work, but you suffer. You really, really suffer.

Two beheadings out of six wives is too many.

Medicine is the restoration of discordant elements; sickness is the discord of the elements infused into the living body.

Courage! I have shown it for years; think you I shall lose it at the moment when my sufferings are to end?

It would be pretty impossible for us to separate our personal and professional lives, because so much of what we do comes from how we were raised and what we share and who we are.

Our continents unification is at hand and we must stand to account.