The influence of Paris, for instance, is now minimal. Yet a lot is written about Paris fashion.

The whole point of design is to make people feel better about themselves.

I tell women not to believe everything they read about fashion.

Fashion is in a terrible state. An overdose of too much flesh.

Designs are a revelation to me. It's like taking something that is not alive and giving it form, shape, substance, and life.

The greatest concubines in history knew that everything revealed with nothing concealed is a bore.

When I don't have any ideas, I pick up fabric and start working with it and something happens.

Clothes should look as if a woman was born into them. It is a form of possession, this belonging to one another.

Design is an unknown.

Fashion is treated too much as news rather than what it is, what it does and how it performs.

A woman should be less concerned about Paris and more concerned about whether the dress she's about to buy relates to the way she lives.

It hurts too much so I don't want to talk about it.

The stories books tell transcend those of the characters inked upon their pages. A book discloses far more about the person who reads it.

Tis Fate that flings the dice, And as she flingsOf kings makes peasants, And of peasants kings.

The international community is pushing things forward in Bosnia... but it is doing it at expense of the Muslim people. I feel it as an injustice, these are the things that I cannot live with.

I'm always moving forward.

Courts of equity have always considered it of the greatest possible importance that parties should not sleep on their rights.

Humanity is at its greatest perfection in the race of the whites.

Health and happiness give rise to each other.

I just think it's ridiculous to be dogmatic and be caught in the past. You have to be open, aware, nimble and flexible about changes in the world.

Every man expects some miracle — either from his mind or from his body or from someone else or from events.