“Success is most often achieved by those who don’t know that failure is inevitable.”

Elegance comes from being as beautiful inside as outside.

A woman’s education consists of two lessons: never leave the house without stocking, never go out without a hat.

For a woman betrayal has no sense – one cannot betray one’s passions.

Fashion is made to become unfashionable.

A woman who doesn’t wear perfume has no future.

A woman has the age she deserves.

Elegance does not consist in putting on a new dress.

Elegance does not consist in putting on a new dress.

How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something but to be someone.

Elegance is not the prerogative of those who have just escaped from adolescence, but of those who have already taken possession of their future.

Women have always been the strong ones of the world.

In order to be irreplaceacle, one must always be different.

Nature gives you the face you have at twenty; it is up to you to merit the face you have at fifty.

I only drink Champagne on two occasions, when I am in love and when I am not.

The best colour in the whole world is the one that looks good on you.

When I find a colour darker than black, I’ll wear it. But until then, I’m wearing black!

You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand.

I’m not in the Lifetime Achievement area yet-I’m still battling it out in the trenches.

Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.

Forbearance in the face of fate, beauty constant under torture, are not merely passive. They are a positive achievement, an explicit triumph.

I never thought of becoming an actress, but I always dreamt of winning a beauty pageant, and I achieved that.

In order for me to achieve… I had to regard myself greater than what I was. In other words I had to fake it until I make it.

The future is not a gift: it is an achievement. Every generation helps make its own future. This is the essential challenge of the present.

Physical fitness is extremely important to me. Only if you are fit will you be able to achieve whatever you want to achieve in life; you will be able to pursue your dreams, your ambition, you goals, and the things you love.