I'm used to always deciding everything myself. It's a blessing, but also a terrible defect.

There is a real vulgarity in the way women dress at the moment. They show off too much and try too hard. They don't understand where the line is between sexy and vulgar. I know where that line is.

I love clothes and fashion more than music

I think I was the first to show that a designer could be like a rock star, that people should love your fashion but also put your name together with your fashion.

Nature is my main source of inspiration - I will never stop taking hints from what I call 'the greatest artist'

Sometimes women are afraid to be sexy and women should know that sometimes a dress can change her life

I really admire a woman for her intelligence, her personality. Beauty is not enough.

A beautiful dress can be as exciting as a poem.

I would like the people that buy my clothes to understand that for me it’s one small piece of art.

I copy the dress of an animal because I love to copy God. I think God is the most fantastic designer.

I think God is the most fantastic designer.

no one asks poor people if they want war.

I am what I have ever read

...that tender compunction of the honest-minded, so different from the hateful intoxication of criminals...

The future condition of the conquered power depends on the will of the conquerer.

I was always confident and comfortable. But motherhood is what really made me feel beautiful.

I do not think the devil cares how many churches you build, if only you have lukewarm preachers and people in them.

I can see how people work out to feel better.

Yes, winning the gold medal was undoubtedly the biggest day of my career - mostly because I won the way I had prepared to run it. It was a totally satisfying experience.

What man wants is simply independent choice, whatever that independence may cost and wherever it may lead.

The individual man is transitory, but the pulse of life and of growth goes on after he is gone, buried under a wreath of magnolia leaves.