“The best thing to do is dive with your imagination ~ you can never drown yourself.”

If you stick to something doggedly, you are off to a bad start.

I think that it’s a crime to say you are bored when time is so precious and there are so many things to do in life: read, learn, watch.

Normal people think I’m insane.

Fashion is the healthiest motivation for losing weight.

You cannot fake chic but you can be chic and fake fur

I hate birthdays, .. It’s more like a new starting point in New York. For me, it’s an evolution. I don’t celebrate the past. I like the present and tomorrow.

I’m open to everything. When you start to criticize the times you live in, your time is over.

Dress for yourself and the man you love (if there is one). Women dressing to impress other women–forget about that. Forget about that. It’s a very bad way of thinking.

Youthfulness is about how you live not when you were born.

When I was a child I asked my mother what homosexuality was about and she said – and this was 100 years ago in Germany and she was very open-minded – ‘It’s like hair color. It’s nothing. Some people are blond and some people have dark hair. It’s not a subject.’ This was a very healthy attitude.

Sweatpants are a sign of defeat. You lost control of your life so you bought some sweatpants.

What I hate is nasty, ugly people.

What I’ve done, Coco Chanel would never have done. She would have hated it.

I like everything to be washable, myself included.

You come first, the clothes later. Reinvent new combinations of what you already own. Be creative.

One is never over-dressed or underdressed with a Little Black Dress.

It often happens that those are the best people whose characters have been most injured by slanderers: as we usually find that to be the sweetest fruit which the birds have been picking at.

I don’t go thinking I’m going to lose. I never go into a tournament thinking that. I’ll do the best that I can.

People come out to see you perform and you’ve got to give them the best you have within you.

Venus told me the other day that champions don’t get nervous in tight situations. That really helped me a lot. I decided I shouldn’t get nervous and just do the best I can.

We all know who the real number one is. Quite frankly, I’m the best in the world.

If you don’t try to win you might as well hold the Olympics in somebody’s back yard. The thrill of competing carries with it the thrill of a gold medal. One wants to win to prove himself the best.

The best way to destroy the capitalist system is to debauch the currency.

Life is about strategy not tragedy. Make the best one.