Women, with their sure instincts, realized that my intention was to make them not just more beautiful but also happier.

Elegance must be the right combination of distinction, naturalness, care and simplicity. Outside this, believe me, there is no elegance. Only pretension.

Individuality will always be one of the conditions of real elegance

After women, flowers are the most lovely thing God has given the world.

Simplicity, good taste and grooming are the three fundamentals of good dressing and these do not cost money.

Deep in every heart slumbers a dream and the couturier knows it: every woman is a princess

A dress is a piece of ephemeral architecture, designed to enhance the proportions of the female body.

Real elegance is everywhere, especially in the things that don't show.

By being natural and sincere, one often can create revolutions without having sought them.

My dream? To make women happier and more beautiful.

Real woman should be capricious.

We sinned for no reason but an incomprehensible lack of love, and He saved us for no reason but an incomprehensible excess of love.

The Motto of Champions: If you are hurt, you can suck it up and press on. If injured, you can rebound and return bigger and better...and continue to inspire!

Books are a staircase to unknown worlds.

Even-money that my liver lasts through my wife's metamorphosis to my mother-in-law.

Universities are the custodians not only of the many cultures of man, but of the rational process itself.

I enjoyed recording at home. I had the luxury of being able to re-record things.

A fluent writer always seems more talented than he is. To write well, one needs a natural felicity and an acquired difficulty.

I keep active because I have not announced my retirement, because that is something that takes time and you have to plan it. Plus, it is something that the Dominican people expected.

The kindergarten children are confident in spirit, infinite in resources, and eager to learn. Everything is still possible.

I am savage enough to prefer the woods, the wilds, and the independence of Monticello, to all the brilliant pleasures of this gaycapital [Paris].