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

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.

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.

You can wear your hair long or wear a beard because you want to show that you are interested in thought, in psychological endeavors rather than appearance.

He wore his fear on his skin for everyone to see.

It's wonderful to know that the power to define who I am rests solely with me. If I decide I am an artist, or a poet, a teacher or a writer then I AM.

Imagination is a glorious wonder.

It's better to lose some of battles in the struggle for your dreams than to be defeated without ever even knowing what you're fighting for.

The real ladder of opportunity is ascending levels of consciousness.

Almost all of our sorrows spring out of our relations with other people.

It is absurd to ape our betters.

Things... well, things suck sometimes. And sometimes you can fix it. And sometimes you can't. It's just the way it is.

There was living in the palace at this time a brother of the great Germanicus, and consequently an uncle of the late emperor, whose name was Claudius Caesar.

Islam is itself destiny and will not suffer destiny.