You have to have curiosity in life. The moment you don't have any more curiosity, then don't do anything. Retire and stay in your house.

Elegance isn't solely defined by what you wear. It's how you carry yourself, how you speak, what you read.

Do you know what elegance is? It is not only what you're wearing. It is how you wear it. who you are inside.

Age is something only in your head or a stereotype. Age means nothing when you are passionate about something.

Always choose style over fashion: wear something that makes you look beautiful.

Fashion is to please your eye. Shapes and proportions are for your intellect.

Fashion has always been a repetition of ideas, but what makes it new is the way you put it together.

I don't get my inspiration from books or a painting. I get it from the women I meet.

Mistakes in life teach you how to succeed because you want to try again and do it better.

A wedding dress is both an intimate and personal for a woman - it must reflect the personality and style of the bride.

Money doesn't buy elegance. You can take an inexpensive sheath, add a pretty scarf, gray shoes, and a wonderful bag, and it will always be elegant.

Freedom isn't hard to lose - but it's a hard thing to win back once it's been lost.

I've spent a long time giving people the benefit of the doubt, and I'm tired of it.

It’s a release to know that in spite of everything a premeditated act of courage is still possible.

What matters most is not who is sitting in the White House, but "who is sitting in" - and who is marching outside the White House, pushing for change.

Two-thirds of my energies go in trying to save one-third for work.

I try to get a degree of realism in my music.

This possibility bothered me as I thought it was not advisable to remain in one academic environment, and the long dark winters in Edinburgh could be rather dismal.

My feelings about my mortality are less selfish than they used to be. I used to affect a cavalier attitude to death; now I see it from my son's perspective.

Thou hast created us for Thyself, and our heart is not quiet until it rests in Thee.

I'm trying to cultivate a long-term career rather than get every job right this minute. That'd be putting too much pressure on myself. I'd go crazy if I thought like that.