“Men don’t wear fashion any more except in Italy and London. Americans have lost that.”

When you find somebody good, keep them in your life.

Glamour is something more than what you put on your body. It has to do with the way you carry yourself and the impact you have on others.

It’s funny, our beauty standard has become harder and tougher because we live in a tough age. I don’t think anyone wants to walk down the street and feel vulnerable. You want to walk down the street and feel like you’re in control.

What is important is that we stop and realize, “Okay. This is fine. I can enjoy that. But what is really important, what I’m really going to take away with me from this life, is my connection with other people.

I probably do have an obsessive personality, but striving for perfection has served me well

When I was a little kid, all I wanted to do was to escape what I thought was the country and get to a city. Probably film and television had influenced me so much, I really thought the key to happiness was living a very artificial life in a penthouse in New York with martini glasses.

Only hire people you want to have dinner with.

Style for me is some one who figures out who they are. What works on them. What they feel good in and develops that. Develops their character. And the outer expression of their character is what is style.

I thought I was fabulous and everyone else was stupid.

I am not someone who likes cocktail parties or large dinner parties, but I have to attend them often. I much prefer very small dinners with close friends.

If I was ever going to become a good designer, I had to leave America. My own culture was inhibiting me. Too much style in America is tacky. It’s looked down upon to be too stylish. Europeans, however, appreciate style.

Fashion is everything. Art, music, furniture design, graphic design, hair, makeup, architecture, the way cars look – all those things go together to make a moment in time, and that’s what excites me.

I’m a believer in fate and in fulfilling your destiny. I’ve always had a kind of inner voice that I have learned to listen to.

I don’t believe in playing around much with suit cuts. I like a fairly classic shape that gives a man strong shoulders, a fitted waist, and long legs. Classic simplicity always works.

I’m a natural-born boss, I have to say. I just like to be good at things. Even as a child, I was boss of my family.

You can’t fake anything. If you’re honest and true and you love something, and you put that energy into it, people can usually feel it on the other side.

In the depths of my heart I can’t help being convinced that my dear fellow-men, with a few exceptions, are worthless.

Man, wonderful man, must collapse, into nature’s cauldron, he is no deity, he is no exception.

For 244 years our democracy has worked and this is no exception.

I have, indeed, no abhorrence of danger, except in its absolute effect – in terror.

The world needs saints, and all of us, without exception, are called to holiness. We are not afraid!

We don’t need no culture except revolutionary culture. What we mean by that is a culture that will free you.

There are no constraints on the human mind, no walls around the human spirit, no barriers to our progress except those we ourselves erect.

Wars have never hurt anybody except the people who die.