The first lady must be a leader. She must not be a follower.

Fashion anticipates, and elegance is a state of mind ... a mirror of the time in which we live, a translation of the future, and should never be static.

Fashion anticipates ... elegance is a state of mind.

To be well dressed is a little like being in love

In our society, everyone wants to be a celebrity overnight.

I spent half my life being hurt. The leftovers of hurt are an automatic gesture, like a dog that salivates.

Grace Kelly was a glacially cool, like a wonderful sherbet in the middle of the desert. Cooling, icy, clean. She was a genetic miracle, a superior woman.

The best of life is to embark on an adventure with a woman interested in having an adventure with you.

I have programmed myself to be at least 105 years old.

You might say that I'm the Michelangelo of the dress business.

Every poor designer can go with things that are popular at the moment.

I have taken all my good deeds and all my bad deeds, and cast them … in a heap before the Lord, and fled from both, and betaken myself to the Lord Jesus Christ, and in him I have sweet peace!

I hate it that Americans are taught to fear some books and some ideas as though they were diseases.

He wondered if it was safe to grin. Very slowly and carefully, he grinned. It was safe.

What I love about Thanksgiving is that it's purely about getting together with friends or family and enjoying food. It's really for everybody, and it doesn't matter where you're from.

I want to tell you that if the Great Spirit had chosen anyone to be the chief of this country, it is myself.

Listen, anybody who has a film festival has the right to show what they want.

I would say that the surest measure of a man's or a woman's maturity is the harmony, style, joy, and dignity he creates in his marriage, and the pleasure and inspiration he provides for his spouse.

To brand man with infamy, and let him free, is an absurdity that peoples our forests with assassins.

The MDGs have been useful in moving human rights and development discourse together and in highlighting the need for greater accountability at all levels.

I am much more interested in the process than results.