The right shoe can make everything different.

I love the idea of couture and its emphasis on creation. There's where I made my name - in design - and there's where I'd like to stay.

After all, it's very important for any big-name designer to have a couture range. I leave the ready-to-wear to my partner and team.

Sometimes you don't know if you're Caesar about to cross the Rubicon or Captain Queeg cutting your own tow line.

Revolution should be Syrian, cannot be revolution imported from abroad.

It's the economics, that's why opera is not dying but gets more and more difficult to put on.

So has the strategic decision been made to disarm Iraq of its weapons of mass destruction by the leadership in Baghdad? I think our judgment has to be clearly not.

I kind of picked up the game at an early age. The way that other kids would learn what a fork or a spoon is.

Body and soul, like peevish man and wife, United jar, and yet are loth to part.

Reason like science, grows by way of mutual criticism; the only possible way of planning its growth is to develop those institutions that safeguard. the freedom of thought

I come from a food family, so you would think that I would be great at making baked beans or something, but I'm not.

Every crime destroys more Edens than our own

Life is a pill which none of us can bear to swallow without gilding.