I liken myself to someone who built the house he will live in one day and is preparing to furnish it.

Elegance is a statement, an attitude. Elegant women are women of character with confidence.

My personality resembles my designs to a large extent. I'm in sync with myself and I'm transparent, just like my designs.

I traced the path I walk today and my goals are many. I think that I'm achieving my goals.

If I hadn't been a determined person I wouldn't have succeeded in life.

Voluptuous and enveloping like layers of precious fabrics

But it turned out you couldn't run from your past. It always found a way to track you down.

The only thing you will get from common sense, is a common life. Be uncommon and have uncommon sense.

The sunshine that strikes American roads each year contains more energy than all the fossil fuels used by the entire world.

In a country lacking leaders, in Africa, for instance, how could a native educated in Europe refuse to become a professor, even at the price of his literary vocation?

Oooh I get by with a little help from my friends.

You live overseas, you see these exotic places and you want to know about them. But, weirdly, it also made me homesick for all these very prosaic places in America.

"Everyone is asleep. They've all been asleep for years. You seemed... awake." Alex is whispering now. He closes his eyes, opens them again. "I'm tired of sleeping."

If I ever get to go to the moon, I'll probably just stand on the moon and go 'Hmmm, yeah...fair enough...gotta go home now.'

Neither human wisdom nor divine inspiration can confer upon man any greater blessing than this [live a life of happiness and harmony here on earth].

You have to have a passionate opinion; otherwise you sound false. You end up telling the audience jokes they've already heard.