Valentino made my day suit for the wedding of Paloma Picasso in Paris.

The most luxurious item is a beautiful bed and beautiful, simple sheets.

I just need green. I need to wake up and see grass and squirrels. I don't want to see skyscrapers.

Luxury is...to be able to take control of one's life, health, and the pursuit of happiness in a way that is joyful.

I love people - it is not the fashion, it is the people in fashion I love.

Some days are good; some days are not so good. Some days are really exciting. Some days are just tedious. You just have to get up out of bed.

People need to be edited; life needs to be edited. I need to be edited.

The zenith of elegance in any woman's wardrobe is the little black dress, the power of which suggests dash and refinement.

Drekitude is the lowest point in the lowest ebb. It could be your look. It could be your shoes. It could be that you're standing wrong. Drek is a total, total, total hot mess.

I don't tear down. I prefer to build up.

People love fashion exhibits because they can fantasize. They can respond to a dress even if they can never wear a dress like that.

Our hearts were drunk with a beauty Our eyes could never see.

The thing about great poetry is we have no defenses against it.

Trees are good for contemplation. Plato and Aristotle did their best thinking in the groves of olives and figs around Athens, and Buddha found enlightenment beneath a bo or peepul tree.

Trust in your own self more than in all else.

We can't do much about the length of our lives, but we can do plenty about it's width and depth.

I think I would go for a Michael Phelps kind of guy.

Foresight is an imperfect thing - all prevision in economics is imperfect.

God does not punish directly. His ways are inscrutable.

I feel like people who actually know how music works on a technical level need to explain it to the rest of us a little more often.

There is not a respectable system of civilization known to history whose foundations were not laid in the institution of domestic slavery.