It was books that kept me from taking my own life after I thought I could never love anyone, never be loved by anyone again.

The horror was this: the others.

If no one ever took risks, Michaelangelo would have painted the Sistine floor.

The difference between ancients and moderns is that the ancients asked what have we experienced, and moderns asked what can we experience.

Perfume is like a personal signature, which is why I like to mix my own. For years I've paired Femme by Rochas with Shalimar and love the results.

Men will not fight and die without knowing what they are fighting and dying for.

I don't go around thinking of myself as a great anything.

Clothes are inevitable. They are nothing less than the furniture of the mind made visible.

When a door is hard to open, and if nothing else works, sometimes you just have to rear back and kick it open.

My position is this – street soccer is the most natural educational system that can be found

Throughout the whole of life one must continue to learn to live and what will amaze you even more, throughout life you must learn to die. Seneca (Roman philosopher)