The bikini is the most important thing since the atom bomb.

Blue jeans are the most beautiful things since the gondola.

The only real elegance is in the mind; if you've got that, the rest really comes from it.

You don't have to be born beautiful to be wildly attractive.

The two greatest mannequins of the century were Gertrude Stein and Edith Sitwell - unquestionably. You just couldn't take a bad picture of those two old girls

There's only one very good life and that's the life you know you want and you make it yourself.

A world without leopards, well, who would want to live in it?

Red is the great clarifier - bright and revealing. I can't imagine becoming bored with red - it would be like becoming bored with the person you love.

You're not supposed to give people what they want, you're supposed to give them what they don't know that they want yet.

The first thing to do is to arrange to be born in Paris. After that, everything follows quite naturally.

Elegance is innate. It has nothing to do with being well dressed. Elegance is refusal.

You should not seek forgiveness after an unkind act. The act was done on purpose. You must first understand why the act occurred and then move forward.

People a lot of times say that you know it must be hard to direct yourself. That's a myth. It's easier to direct yourself. There's no middle man, you know.

When performance exceeds ambition, the overlap is called success.

Miracles happen every day. Not just in remote country villages or at holy sites halfway across the globe, but here, in our own lives.

Mama sewed the rags together, sewing every piece with love. She made my coat of many colors that I was proud of.

It comes as second nature to men to sacrifice themselves, and their women to let them do it.

The truth is not beautiful - it stands on cloven hooves - it is covered in coagulated blood - but it is the truth.

Love is the only endeavor in which knowing what you're doing is no help at all.

Learn to listen. It's amazing the ideas that pop into your head while people are saying them into your ear.

Secrecy is the original sin. The fig leaf in the Garden of Eden. The basic crime against love.