I would never become a big, big model in the commercial sense because I was such a type; you couldn't use me in everything.

I'm not an outdoor girl. I can barely swim. I don't ride a horse.

I cook the food of Macau, my roots and soul food.

I am China, pronounced as Chee-na. And I think it's time the world lets older women age gracefully.

I'm practical. I see something, and I do it.

No man has ever paid a single bill in my life - I didn't want it.

I do not really shop. Most of my clothes I make. I dress simply.

Originally a stylist took terrible dresses and did everything she could to make them wonderful. Now, you create an image. It's much more specialized.

I take off my makeup with Ponds cold cream, and then I wash myself with gentle soap and water, and that's it.

Age is not a taboo in the fashion industry. One should learn what to wear to look good at any age.

I wonder if it is harder for a woman who was beautiful to get older or a woman who was never looked at.

Don't be sad because I'm dying, be happy because very second another great human being is born, another person that ill have chances to do greater things than me.

Writing is like a religion to those who don't practise, an act of faith for those who do.

Sorrows are like thunderclouds - in the distance they look black over our heads scarcely gray.

Change begets change. Nothing propagates so fast.

Appreciation is the purest,strongest form of love. It is the outward-bound kind of love that asks for nothing and gives everything.

Fortunately, Iranians are politically active worldwide.

And is there anything more closely connected with wisdom than truth?

We were talking briefly about cocaine... yeah. Anything that makes you paranoid and impotent, give me more of that!

In a world without fences, who needs Gates?

Here in Florida, we have something special we never enjoyed at Disneyland: the blessing of size. There's enough land here to hold all of the ideas and plans we can possibly imagine.