After all, it's very important for any big-name designer to have a couture range. I leave the ready-to-wear to my partner and team.

The right shoe can make everything different.

I love the idea of couture and its emphasis on creation. There's where I made my name - in design - and there's where I'd like to stay.

Society is now one polished horde Formed of two mighty tribes the Bores and Bored.

We shall never recover the true apostolic energy, and be endued with power from on high, as the first disciples were, 'till we recover the lost faith.

Monuments! what are they? the very pyramids have forgotten their builders, or to whom they were dedicated. Deeds, not stones, are the true monuments of the great.

Pleasure simply brings more craving, but the problem is that we try to get contentment through pleasure. True contentment can only come through service.

The key to acting with integrity is to simply stop playing the game.

I'm one of those guys who likes to piddle around in the garage and fix stuff.

The Ediles among the Romans had their doors always standing open, that all who had petitions might have free access to them. The door of heaven is always open for the prayers of God's people.

But what is truth? 'Twas Pilate's question put To Truth itself, that deign'd him no reply.

Foul deeds will rise, Though all the earth o'erwhelm them, to men's eyes.

Bad stories are written about me because the press knows they can make me into a weeping dog and few people will object.