"Don’t sacrifice yourself too much, because if you sacrifice too much there’s nothing else you can give and nobody will care for you."

"Don't look to the approval of others for your mental stability"

"Forgiveness is too easy. I can forget by indifference, but not forgive. I prefer revenge."

"Books are a hard-bound drug with no danger of an overdose. I am the happy victim of books."

"The only love that I really believe in is a mother’s love for her children."

"When people talk about the good old days, I say to people, 'It's not the days that are old, it's you that's old.' I hate the good old days. What is important is that today is good."

"A respectable appearance is sufficient to make people more interested in your soul"

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

"Dieting is the only game where you win when you lose!"

"Youthfulness is about how you live not when you were born."
"Guilty feelings about clothes are totally unnecessary. A lot of people earn their living by making clothes, so you should never feel bad."

"Music gives color to the air of the moment."

"People who do a job that claims to be creative have to be alone to recharge their batteries. You can’t live 24 hours a day in the spotlight and remain creative. For people like me, solitude is a victory."

"I like to reinvent myself — it’s part of my job."

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

"Logos and branding are so important. In a big part of the world, people cannot read French or English--but are great in remembering signs"

"When people want to be liked for what they did, they should stop."

"I'm very down to Earth, I'm just not from this Earth."

"Success nullifies. You then have to do it again, preferably differently"

"I had an interview once with some German journalist—some horrible, ugly woman. It was in the early days after the communists—maybe a week after—and she wore a yellow sweater that was kind of see-through. She had huge tits and a huge black bra, and she said to me, ‘It’s impolite; remove your glasses.’ I said, ‘Do I ask you to remove your bra?"

"What is the worst is a fashion designer who talks all the time of his or her creativity, what they are, how they evolved. Just do it and shut up."

"The elegance is as physical, as moral quality that has nothing common with the clothing. You can see a countrywoman more elegant than one so called elegant woman."

"For every book you buy, you should buy the time to read it."