The historical side of fashion was very attractive to me when I was a teenager in Moscow, working for the costume departments in various Russian theater companies.

My deep relations with fashion started in Paris in 1980s, when I was appointed head of The Fashion History course at French Esmod fashion school, the biggest and the best in those years in Paris.

Just because they annoy you doesn't mean they’re wrong!

The failure of one regional bank, assuming it is following a traditional model, will not threaten the entire system.

I embrace the purpose of God and the doom assigned.

Be warned that being an expert is more than understanding how a system is supposed to work. Expertise is gained by investigating why a system doesn't work.

It is true that Christianity is not bound up with any particular race or culture. It is neither of the East or of the West, but has a universal mission to the human race as a whole

Those thinkers who cannot believe in any gods often assert that the love of humanity would be in itself sufficient for them; and so, perhaps, it would, if they had it.

Let's not just make noise, let's make a difference.

The day effort ceased, I also ceased. Because you cannot exist without effort, and you cannot exist without desire, and you cannot exist without striving.

How about that amigo? I just come over to see my friends and I win ze bloody championship.

I don’t like to be alone, but I do cherish the moments that I’m alone with a good book.