We need better things, not more. We should not pollute the world with meaningless, unused things when we can make and support things of rare and precious beauty.

I spend a lot of time upside down. It increases the blood flow to the brain, so it really helps your creativity.

I don't approach fashion; fashion approaches me!

As I got older I looked at the world and I realised, we need armour. So my jewellery and clothes became my armour

I treat clothing or a piece of jewelry like it was a piece of art.

Life is full of banana skins. You slip, you carry on.

I dislike the idea of jewellery being like a price tag around someone's neck. It needs to be something else - and there is something extremely magical about armour.

Sunglasses are great, but I always feel a bit pretentious wearing sunglasses. I mean, I do love to wear them.

I think life is about having the mixture of the curiosity of an older person and the imagination of a child.

I don't regard clothing as disposable, which is probably why I have so much of it!

I really don't understand the idea of a celebrity stylist. Is it a real job? I know there's unemployment, but frankly the railways need to be fixed, too.

Eye contact is way more intimate than words will ever be.

It is through the imagination that the formless takes form.

The real rulers in Washington are invisible, and exercise power from behind the scenes.

We physicists know that a beautiful postulate is more likely to be correct than an ugly one. Why not adopt this Postulate of Eternal Life, at least as a working hypothesis?

If you profess to be a child of God, leave it to the Lord Jesus to sanctify you in His own way.

I'm sick of not having the courage to be an absolute nobody. I'm sick of myself and everybody else that wants to make some kind of a splash.

The most important thing in the Olympic Games is not winning but taking part; the essential thing in life is not conquering but fighting well.

I came from such a simple origin, without any great privilege, and I would say I also wanted to make a mark. It wasn't until I was about 15 that I appeared in a race.

A mission which becomes a commercial concern may end by ceasing to be a mission

For us is the life of action, of strenuous performance of duty; let us live in the harness, striving mightily; let us rather run the risk of wearing out than rusting out.