“I wanted to be an independent woman, a woman who could pay for her bills, a woman who could run her own life – and I became that woman.”

For me, traveling and living are the same. How you travel is a symbol of your life.

I was born in Belgium. I went to school in England and in Switzerland, then I came to America, so I really feel like I am a citizen of the world.

The most important relationship in your life is the relationship you have with yourself. Because no matter what happens, you will always be with yourself.

The most important relationship is the one you have with yourself.

The secret is to enjoy being you.

Simplicity and sexiness, that’s what people want. At a price that’s not outrageous.

When you get into a hotel room, you lock the door, and you know there is a secrecy, there is a luxury, there is fantasy. There is comfort. There is reassurance.

If there is one rule for dressing, for fashion, it’s pretty much the same rule as for everything else in life: Don’t go against yourself, don’t go against your own nature. It’s only going to show.

It’s important to leave your face without makeup for a while after waking up, Let your skin breathe a while before applying your makeup, even if it means waking up a bit earlier.

You know I have never met a woman who is not strong. They don’t exist.

The secret to a great marriage is having a great husband.

I communicate mostly via e-mail and receive hundreds of e-mails a day.

Use your brains, your common sense, and do not become an object. The way you look is important, but who you are and how you project it is eventually who you will become and how you will appear.

Building a wardrobe is like building a circle of friends your whole life…. Your own beauty is to be yourself, but of course we need tools and accessories.

The important thing is to believe in what you do. Have a big dream and take small steps.

I didn’t really know what I wanted to do, but I knew the woman I wanted to become.

There is in fact no such thing as art for art’s sake, art that stands above classes, art that is detached from or independent of politics. Proletarian literature and art are part of the whole proletarian revolutionary cause.

Colonies do not cease to be colonies because they are independent.

The class of citizens who provide at once their own food and their own raiment, may be viewed as the most truly independent and happy.

France had a policy, initiated by General de Gaulle, of trying to turn Europe into what was then called a ‘third force,’ independent of the two superpowers, so Europe should pursue an independent course.

I love good film, whether it’s an independent or studio film. The independent films, I think the good ones aren’t necessarily eccentric ones but they’re the more specific ones.

New Hampshire polling data are unreliable because, when you call the Granite State’s registered Republicans and independents in the middle of dinner and ask them who they’re going to vote for, they have a mouth full of mashed potatoes and you can’t understand what they say.

I admire [Alex] Salmond in many ways but my problem with him has always been this independence thing within the EU, which is rubbish.

When no one aids you, you build your own legs.