Yesterday people were permitted to change things. They will be permitted to advocate changing them tomorrow. It is only dangerous to think of changing anything today.

Women want to wear what they do because of what goes on in their heads. Their size and shape have practically nothing to do with it.

It is impossible to be completely abstract about clothes because they have no life unless they are worn. They must fit onto a body or they do not exist.

No garment which distorts the shape and motion of the wearer is beautiful, nor s any garment beautiful which emphasizes more than one or at most two of your sexual characteristics.

There is no word in English for chic. Why should there be? Everything chic is by legend French. Perhaps everything chic is in reality French.

Chic is a combination of style and fashion.

I don't know when the word fashion came into being, but it was an evil day. For thousands of years people got along with something called style and maybe, in another thousand, we'll go back to it.

One of the most fascinating things about the world of fashion is that practically no one knows who inhabits it or why it exists. There are a few people who know how it works, but they won't tell.

rule number one for all American women: You are to be seen and felt, but not heard. Listen and do as you are told and everything will be all right.

After marriage, all things change. And one of them better be you.

Style doesn't change every month or every year. It only changes as often as there is a real change in the point of view and lives of the people for whom it is produced.

What are five things you are grateful for? Right now? Open to gratitude and you will soften into joy.

The will to succeed should be powerful: The willingness to prepare for success is paramount (KR, 1990)

I want to be anonymous . . . my ambition is to be completely forgotten.

Healing comes when our story is raw, bone-deep and full of hunger for what only Jesus can offer.

What a peculiar privilege has this little agitation of the brain which we call 'thought'.

When a heretic wishes to avoid martyrdom he speaks of "Orthodoxy, True and False" and demonstrates that the True is his heresy.

Sometimes I still don't know if I'm prepared to go through the entire season, dealing with the different personalities, the crowds, the politics.

I consider this world to be like a school and our lives to be the classrooms.

I mean the only thing us dead soldiers got in common is that none of us was good enough or lucky enough to survive the fight. We're a host of failures.

Do what you do so well - and so uniquely - that people can't resist telling others about you