One thing I longed to do was to design a complete look, from head to toe, so I started a make-up line in 1966.

The fashionable woman wears clothes. The clothes don't wear her.

Only paper flowers are afraid of the rain.

Risk it, go for it. Life always gives you another chance, another go at it. It's very important to take enormous risks.

Fashion is not frivolous. It is a part of being alive today.

Rules are invented for lazy people who don't want to think for themselves.

Fashion, as we knew it, is over; people wear now exactly what they feel like wearing.

Fashion is a tool... to compete in life outside the home. People like you better, without knowing why, because people always react well to a person they like the looks of.

Being young is greatly overestimated ... Any failure seems so total. Later on you realize you can have another go.

Fashion should be a game.

One of the things I've learned is never to horde ideas, because either they are not so relevant or they've gone stale. Whatever it is, pour it out.

The gentle waters poured from the heavens, baptizing the two angels in a healing shower that washed away their differences, lifting the veil from their sight, and they knew they were the same.

And maybe the only reason we have to fall back down to grow again is the same cause for the sun to rise and sink: our stars need time to shine at night to heal, to heal.

It is no use saying 'we are doing our best.' You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.

As a child is indulged or checked in its early follies, a ground is generally laid for the happiness or misery of the future man.

I feel like people want there to be this mystery between film and theater, but I just kind of went where I got jobs, you know?

There is no perfect love - that's something I'm very realistic about.

Do not encumber your mind with useless thoughts. What good does it do to brood on the past or anticipate the future? Remain in the simplicity of the present moment.

It is easy to sympathize at a distance,' said an old gentleman with a beard. 'I value more the kind word that is spoken close to my ear.

Effect should come first. Method second.

No weapon is sharper than will.