I just can't see myself as a trophy wife. I can't imagine not having my own life.

My motto is: feel the fear and do it anyway.

I don't really care about gossip. I care about building great businesses.

The truth is that we all have lives that are complicated. We all get hurt by people we love sometimes. It's laughable to believe that anyone is immune. The important thing is how you behave.

Its important for women to work. They need to keep their independence, to keep earning and being challenged.

The reality is that I spent years in the factories in Italy when I first set up Jimmy Choo. Today, everyone who has a job at Jimmy Choo, I've done their job - right down to the cleaner.

The thing about Uggs is that they're so comfortable. Once you've worn them, you don't want to go back.

A little jewellery on a man is OK, although he should never wear too much. Every man should always have a great watch.

I think it takes 30 years to build a luxury brand.

My daughter is my passion and my life.

It's amazing how much resilience you can have when you're passionate about a project that you're doing.

Thoreau was an idiot.

I can think of no more worthwhile aim than pursuing mastery in this craft while transcending one’s own limitations.

Then I’d go home, return to a pattern of worry, unable to tap the surrender core to travel’s inspiration. What was different?

I only hope I may not be ruined, ” she was saying miserably. “I should be obliged to marry you after all, and then I’d likely murder you before the wedding breakfast was over.

Always go too far, because that's where you'll find the truth

There is a certain dignity to being French.

We live in the flicker -- may it last as long as the old earth keeps rolling! But darkness was here yesterday.

It is necessary to salvation that all Christians be subject to the pope.

You are awareness disguised as a human being.

It was curious how life seemed to weave a pattern that was not in the least haphazard, as it so often seemed to be.