It would be very interesting to make a survey around the world, from wealthy countries to the most advanced countries to see what influence Americans have had. I

Gaiety is one of the most important elements I brought to fashion. I brought it through color.

Today - and it's happening very rapidly - money, wealth, position, birth are of no importance at all. The thing that is important is the individual you are.

Today people are a hundred times more interested in the personality of the person they are with than the clothes he wears.

I think that in the end, the people are not fooled by promotion. They want to know that something works and is right.

I would say that if something has an aesthetic value and it is pleasing to watch or to wear, it may in fact have nothing to do with status symbol. You just like to wear it.

Americans have started a lot of projects around the world and I am one of them.

People have to identify with something to show they have reached a certain goal. Anyway, in Russia it's done with medals. You put on all these medals to show who you are.

I don't think people today need to derive security from possessions.

When a man has seen the aerodynamic shape of a Caravelle jet at an airport, he doesn't need aerodynamic furniture.

I would say that it is a trait by which Americans, searching for things which are different or new, seem to recognize the gift that people may have that cause people do to things.

He had become the sky around the sun – alive, but not really there.

Nothing's going to change if you're just thinking about it. No matter how much you worry about someone else's problems.... you can't fix it for them.

She believed in herself maybe more than other people believed in God or the devil or Heaven or Hell.

Nothing is so simple that it cannot be misunderstood.

There's a deep-seated paranoia that Americans have about not being Americans or something.

When she goes about her kitchen duties, chopping, carving, mixing, whisking, she moves with the grace and precision of a ballet dancer, her fingers plying the food with the dexterity of a croupier.

I measure my success by how happy I am, not how big the business is or how much money I've made.

I think what irks me is that I feel like women are really being compartmentalized physically, and it's been done so much that now we're doing it to ourselves. I don't like it.

I think everybody's looking for religion to believe in. I think we all need faith.