There are so many things to take into account - your ambition, your ego, the press, the consumers. You can never be sure that you'll be on top of the pile again.

Elegance is not catching somebody's eyes, it's staying in somebody's memory

Elegance doesn’t mean being noticed, it means being remembered

To create something exceptional, your mindset must be relentlessly focused on the smallest detail.

The difference between style and fashion is quality.

I love things that age well - things that don't date, that stand the test of time and that become living examples of the absolute best.

A woman should always dress to be remembered, not simply to be noticed.

Acknowledge the elegance of simplicity.

A perfume is more than an extract it is a presence in abstraction. A perfume, for me, is a mystique.

Individual style is the correct balance of knowing who you are, what works fro you, and how to develop your own personality

Elegance does not catch the eye. It stays in memory.

Dex had taught her well, and now he would pay.

Whatever your grade or position if you know how and when to speak and when to remain silent your chances of real success are proportionately increased.

Women have been dependent upon men for their survival, for the survival of their children.

The mercy of the West has been social revolution; the mercy of the East has been individual insight into the basic self/void.

In my case, when I am trying to be "kind" I often default in a sort of toothless loving-all stance that is, actually, not kind, because it is not truthful.

Wild at Heart made a few people angry-they thought I was exploiting women by showing that when a woman says no she really means yes.

An opinion which excites no opposition at all is not worth having!

Don't think. The worst songs I've ever written happen when I think.

But how carve way i' the life that lies before, If bent on groaning ever for the past?

I long To hear the story of your life, which must Take the ear strangely.