When I was younger, I never laughed. I was always sour. If I look at pictures of me from the past, I never see a smile. I think it came out of my insecurity. I had a lot of complexes.

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.

Our biological rhythms are the symphony of the cosmos, music embedded deep within us to which we dance, even when we can't name the tune.

Be a calm beholder of what is happening around you.

Providence is but another name for natural law. Natural law itself would go out in a minute if it were not for the divine thought that is behind it.

When you don't dress like everybody else, you don't have to think like everybody else.

The 'open text' often emphasizes or foregrounds process, either the process of the original composition or of subsequent compositions by readers.

For horror movies, color is reassuring because, at least in older films, it adds to the fakey-ness.

Poetry is fascinating. As soon as it begins the poetry has changed the thing into something extra, and somehow prose can go over into poetry.

Stay very close to Our Lady. If you do this, you can do great things for God and the good of people.

There is a mysterious stillness and intimacy of a woman doing her hair and make-up which attracts me.

It is always with the best intentions that the worst work is done.