Reading has given me more satisfaction than really anything else.

When in doubt, wear red.

Red is the ultimate cure for sadness.

Style is primarily a matter of instinct.

Simplicity is the soul of modern elegance.

Sometimes the eye gets so accustomed that if you don't have a change, you're bored. It's the same with fashion, you know. And that, I suppose, is what style is about.

Fashion can be bought by anybody; style takes discernment, it has to do with individuality.

We don't live in a world of reality, we live in a world of perceptions. No woman can be well dressed unless she is comfortable in what she is wearing.

Something about glamour interested me. All my schoolbooks had drawings of women on terraces with a cocktail and a cigarette.

Dior really was a savior. He almost single-handedly revived women's interest in clothes.

Heaven shows up all the time. But we plan our time so that we show up in other places.

Risk the fall to know how it feels to fly.

It takes an intelligent ear to listen to Jazz.

The evolution of our spirit is blazed on the dark background of eternity by our individual wakes. Every person can, if he/she wishes, leave a more or less brilliant wake behind them.

Life takes hold of us with strong hands and makes us greater than we thought.

The human race cannot forever exist half-exploiters and half-exploited.

Whetstones are not themselves able to cut, but make iron sharp and capable of cutting.

When I saw you, when I saw you I could not breathe, I fell so deep. When I saw you, when I saw you I'd never be, I'd never be the same.

The Poor Peasants' Committees are necessary to fight the kulaks, the rich, the exploiters, who shackle the working peasants.