If I'm going to do something, I'm going to do it well. That's just my character, that's just the way it is with me.

A dream doesn't become reality through magic; it takes a lot of hard work.

Style is an extension of yourself. My approach is to enhance the personality of the wearer, so he has his own voice

You can't have style if you don't have substance.

Shirt collars are very important to me. Putting a very soft shirt collar with a formal suit doesn't work for me at all.

I have my fashion empire to build.

Anyone can wear any color. The question is about finding the right shade. There is a momentary trend to dark colors because when the financials are not that great, people go for black, navy and grey.

I'm not into street clothes. Don't understand it. I don't understand those over-exaggerated jean sizes so they hang off your back... I just don't understand it.

I'm doing a lot of things in Africa. I've formed a company with two friends of mine called Made In Africa and we are doing a lot of important things across the continent.

I haven't been to a job interview since I was 16 years old. When I was approached by Givenchy it was more like a courtship.

When things happen - you ask yourself why today, why not tomorrow, why not yesterday? That's the most amazing thing about time.

What's wisdom if not the will to learn the lessons, which Nature puts in one's way at every step?

People are mysterious, even to themselves.

Ammu's tears made everything that had so far seemed unreal, real.

Suffer the little children to come unto me and forbid them not for of such is the kingdom of God.

This is God's world, not Satan's. Christians are the lawful heirs, not non-Christians.

It's hard to find a way forward. When you're 18 it happens in huge chunks every day, but after 20 years, growth is much more costly.

Engaging it produces an intense force, which in turn produces a mutation in consciousness. You become who you really are.

You must look into people, as well as at them.

I was under the stars, like a fish is under water.

I think in retrospect that all those 'alternative'modes of living were little more than exercises in arrested development.