Style is to see beauty in modesty.

I have no recipe for how to combine things. But you must be sincere. And if you are, strangely, it will succeed.

Unless you have a feeling for that secret knowledge that modest things can be more beautiful than anything expensive, you will never have style.

I love America, and I love American women. But there is one thing that deeply shocks me - American closets. I cannot believe one can dress well when you have so much.

To not dare is to have already lost. We should seek out ambitious, even unrealistic projects, because things only happen when we dream.

For a house to be successful, the objects in it must communicate with one another, respond to and balance one another

Minimalism in interior design has become a caricature. Everywhere you find shops or hotels with an ambience that makes you feel like you are in a refrigerator.

Love is the bridge that crosses over the river of hate.

Now I've a sheep and a cow, every body bids me good morrow.

The moment you’ve uttered the exact dimensionality of your exile, you’re already turning towards home.

For the choke, there are no 'tough guys'

Americans are hungry for a discussion on policy solutions to the problems in their communities that work.

When I look back on when I grew up, not even football players lifted weights. That was back 50 years ago.

Simplicity, carried to an an extreme, becomes elegance.

Making films is about having absolute and foolish confidence; the challenge for all of us is to have the heart of a poet and the skin of an elephant.

Just because scientists have the knowledge to do it, the technology to do it, and some may even have a financial motive or other incentive to do it, does not make it right.

Watching Italian opera, all those male sopranos screeching, stupid fat couples rolling their eyes about. That's not love, it's just rubbish.