I would say that it is a trait by which Americans, searching for things which are different or new, seem to recognize the gift that people may have that cause people do to things.

Gaiety is one of the most important elements I brought to fashion. I brought it through color.

Today - and it's happening very rapidly - money, wealth, position, birth are of no importance at all. The thing that is important is the individual you are.

Today people are a hundred times more interested in the personality of the person they are with than the clothes he wears.

I think that in the end, the people are not fooled by promotion. They want to know that something works and is right.

I would say that if something has an aesthetic value and it is pleasing to watch or to wear, it may in fact have nothing to do with status symbol. You just like to wear it.

Americans have started a lot of projects around the world and I am one of them.

People have to identify with something to show they have reached a certain goal. Anyway, in Russia it's done with medals. You put on all these medals to show who you are.

I don't think people today need to derive security from possessions.

When a man has seen the aerodynamic shape of a Caravelle jet at an airport, he doesn't need aerodynamic furniture.

You can wear your hair long or wear a beard because you want to show that you are interested in thought, in psychological endeavors rather than appearance.

Whatever thing a man gets quickly enraged about is his idol, and whatever thing he makes his idol becomes his religion.

To me, patriotism is about working ethically and wholeheartedly in our chosen field.

Today I trust my instinct, I trust myself. Finally.

In ethics all individual humans are rightly seen, not only as beings to whom things matter, but as beings who accordingly merit concern and solicitude.

I think all those actors from that generation, like Bogart - they were wonderful actors. They didn't act. They just came on and they did it, and the characters were wonderful.

...there were no guarantees in life, only promises and whispers.

Stationery is addictive. I get mine made in Paris at Benetton, and writing on it gives me a strange thrill.

Political power without economic power is sterile.

I learned how to become wealthy because I asked the right questions when I was broke.

If you have really good intelligence, that truly does put the - I mean putting troops on the ground in some way.