I was a fat child; I was asthmatic. No wonder I'm a hypochondriac.

I don't like perfection - I think it's dangerous. There is nothing after perfection.

A fragrance is a veritable story, told and explained in scent, in notes, in impressions. It's a score based on the emotions of each instant, a captivating music of the senses.

Run away from laziness; work hard. Touch intuition and listen to the heart, not marketing directors. Dream.

Elegant is not what you wear, and it's not about how you wear it, but it's more about who you are.

Fashion is not about before, it’s not about after, it’s about now

When a woman's clothes are in harmony with her emotions, she shines from within.

Pure, intense emotions. It's not about design. It's about feelings.

If you change a woman's look, you change her persona.

It was not the story of design or clothes, it was the fantasy of women that made me want to work in fashion.

Fashion is like a fruit, you couldn't eat it a day before and you can't eat it a day after; it's just about today

When life goes, the body becomes weaker

You can fake your age or mask it, but the passion that moves the characters has to be real.

Noah and his family were the only loyal and obedient subjects to the legal power: they alone were saved.

Mammon is the largest slave-holder in the world.

In time of trouble avert not thy face from hope, for the soft marrow abideth in the hard bone.

Elinor agreed with it all, for she did not think he deserved the compliment of rational opposition.

One does not begin to make a garden until he wants a garden. To want a garden is to be interested in plants, in the winds and rains, in birds and insects, in the warm-smelling earth.

I was always small. I was a leadoff hitter growing up, until I was 13 or 14 years old and had a little growth spurt and started hitting home runs.

It is better to be thought perverse than insincere.

Welcome, welcome, cross of Christ, if Christ be with it.