If you want to establish an international presence you can't do so from New York. You need the consecration of Paris.

The qualities I most admire in women are confidence and kindness.

Regardless of how good or bad a collection might be, it's a letdown after the show is over. It's done. Something you've worked on for months is just over.

Be the designer of your own destiny.

It’s not about what you wear, but about how you live your life

You have to appreciate every single day that you're alive. Life is a little bit like a garden - you have to find time to plant the seeds for beautiful flowers to grow.

Every day you have to reinvent yourself

A fragrance is like a signature, so that even after a woman leaves the room, her fragrance should reveal she's been there.

Fashion is about dressing according to what's fashionable. Style is more about being yourself.

Walk like you have three men walking behind you.

Things never happen on accident. They happen because you have a vision, you have a commitment, you have a dream.

Every child deserves to be a boat cast out in a sea of books.

There was a dazzling intellect beneath the girl's sadness, she was sure - and it bothered Mallory to no end that it might go wasted on the world if Dawn could not be coaxed out of her melancholy.

Everyone is either happy or dead.

The specific political distinction to which political actions and motives can be reduced is that between friend and enemy.

Love seems to be something to approach with caution, as if you'd come across a wrapped box in the middle of the street and have no idea what it contains.

I'm a content person and I'm content knowing that I gave it my all when I was president.

I grew up in a craftsman's home, where things were done with our own hands. I did cabinetmaking for four years and I hated it.

What would happen if we could arrange the atoms one by one the way we want them?

I like to date schoolteachers. If you do something wrong, they make you do it over again.

He had an opinion of himself, I think, that was too high for his own good. Or maybe it was the reverse. Maybe it was a low opinion that he kept trying to erase.