I like people who are powerful, confident, and fearless. Balmain is about an attitude. I think if Marilyn Monroe and Elizabeth Taylor were alive, they would definitely be part of the Balmain crew.

What is the Balmain girl? It’s a woman who knows what she wants and is going to express it

When you become controversial, when you want to promote new ideas, you need to be the face of it and not be scared.

It's really sad to me that we even have to talk about diversity in the fashion world today. That I would love to change. Diversity should be normal.

I think fashion is fashion: Sometimes you dress people that you don't know, and sometimes you dress people that you actually know.

I wish there were more young people in the big houses, but sometimes it's really hard for them to believe in the youth because they go for what's the most expected.

What I'm doing now is having people with and around me to build what other designers built before - like Pierre Balmain with Josephine Baker, Audrey Hepburn, Dalida, Brigitte Bardot.

Kanye West is inspirational. He expresses such a strong vision beyond music, beyond fashion - it's art. He sn't afraid to push boundaries and be provocative.

Prayer is much like sending up a flare. You see it Bright and up there and you know why its there. Your just waiting for signs it was heard

Excellence encourages one about life generally it shows the spiritual wealth of the world.

If printing money helped the economy, then counterfeiting should be legal

What matters finally is not the world's judgment of oneself but one's own judgment of the world.... Any writer who lacks this final arrogance will not survive very long in America.

As he poured carefully, Arrow's head turned toward the sound. The horse made a low grumbling noise in his throat. "Hold your horses," he said. The he laughed. It seemed absurd to say tat to a horse.

A woman friend! He that believes that weakness, Steers in a stormy night without a compass.

Peace in your mind, peace on earth, peace at work, peace at home, peace in the world.

The rich are always afraid.

I'm too disorganized.

I've got so much wisdom and have lived through so much life that I feel more powerful than I ever have.