I take time to get close to, and I don't immediately throw my arms round someone.

I think in business, you have to learn to be patient. Maybe I'm not very patient myself. But I think that I've learned the most is be able to wait for something and get it when it's the right time.

It is not enough to have a talented designer; the management must be inspired too. The creative process is very disorganised; the production process has to be very rational.

I like that combination between creativity and the creative process and the organization needed to make a business like this successful worldwide.

Luxury goods are the only area in which it is possible to make luxury margins.

If you control your distribution, you control your image.

A good product can last forever.

In the luxury business, you have to build on heritage.

When something has to be done, do it! In France we are full of good ideas, but we rarely put them into practice.

When you are on the management side, you still have to understand the artistic sensibility so that there is a dialogue with the creative side.

What we do in our group is the opposite of the bad effects of globalization. We produce in Italy and in France and we sell to China, when usually it's the opposite.

He’s dozed off again, but I kiss him awake, which seems to startle him. Then he smiles as if he’d be happy to lie there gazing at me forever.

Among the tastemakers and power brokers and intellectual agenda setters of late-twentieth-century America, orthodox Christianity was completely déclassé.

I answered that one learns to live, not by hearing of other lives, but by living; for words are infinitely less important than acts.

Conversation may be compared to a lyre with seven chords-philosophy, art, poetry, love, scandal, and the weather.

I dropped out in '64. And I came back to Michigan, in '65. In 1965, when I came back I had never heard of Vietnam.

How absurd to try to make two men think alike on matters of religion, when I cannot make two timepieces agree.

Often thoughts are given to me with the sole purpose of giving them away.

If there is a God, he is a malign thug.

Everyone sniggered because I was going to do a sandal and toga movie. But I knew exactly how to do it and I know how to make Robin Hood.

The secret of great cathedrals is that their proportions conform to cosmic laws, 'shaping' people who spend time in them.