What women have achieved in the last 50 years, I wish men would have achieved in the last 100.

The qualities I most admire in women are confidence and kindness.

Regardless of how good or bad a collection might be, it's a letdown after the show is over. It's done. Something you've worked on for months is just over.

Be the designer of your own destiny.

It’s not about what you wear, but about how you live your life

You have to appreciate every single day that you're alive. Life is a little bit like a garden - you have to find time to plant the seeds for beautiful flowers to grow.

Every day you have to reinvent yourself

A fragrance is like a signature, so that even after a woman leaves the room, her fragrance should reveal she's been there.

Fashion is about dressing according to what's fashionable. Style is more about being yourself.

Walk like you have three men walking behind you.

Things never happen on accident. They happen because you have a vision, you have a commitment, you have a dream.

In my garden I spend my days, in my library I spend my nights. My interests are divided between my geraniums and my books. With the flower I am in the present; with the book I am in the past.

There are people who are so cautious that they are careful not to waste their fear.

I am a brigand: I live by robbing the rich.' 'I am a gentleman: I live by robbing the poor.

Where wisdom is called for, force is of little use.

I can only say that one's individual situation is more real and important to oneself than the devastations of fates and empires especially when they do not vitally affect oneself

The American people demand results, not rhetoric, especially when it comes to national security issues.

If I can keep this up and nothing interferes with my progress, one of these days I might be able to contribute something to the world.

I watch a lot of Turner Classic movies. But I don't do private screenings. I don't have the old school, reel to reel projectors. I do have a big screen TV, though.

I like you, but not too much. I don’t want to like anybody too much.

One cannot leap a chasm in two jumps.