I don't design clothes, I design dreams.

Laughter is the closest distance between two people.

The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing at the right place but to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.

There is no need to go to India or anywhere else to find peace. You will find that deep place of silence right in your room, your garden or even your bathtub.

I have never seasoned a truth with the sauce of a lie in order to digest it more easily.

I have often said that I wish I had invented blue jeans: the most spectacular, the most practical, the most relaxed and nonchalant. They have expression, modesty, sex appeal, simplicity - all I hope for in my clothes.

Take a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons, and you will find that it is to the soul what the water-bath is to the body.

Smell is a potent wizard that transports you across thousands of miles and all the years you have lived.

We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.

Put duties aside at least an hour before bed and perform soothing, quiet activities that will help you relax.

... every advance in social progress removes us more and more from the guidance of instinct, obliging us to depend upon reason for the assurance that our habits are really agreeable to the laws of health.

Manners are a sensitive awareness of the feelings of others. If you have that awareness, you have good manners, no matter what fork you use.

What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.

Curious things, habits. People themselves never knew they had them.

Too many people confine their exercise to jumping to conclusions, running up bills, stretching the truth, bending over backward, lying down on the job, sidestepping responsibility and pushing their luck.

The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain terrible.

I wish more and more that health were studied half as much as disease is. Why, with all the endowment of research against cancer is no study made of those who are free from cancer? Why not inquire what foods they eat, what habits of body and mind they cultivate? And why never study animals in health and natural surroundings? why always sickened ...Read more

She wears her clothes as if they were thrown on with a pitchfork.

Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.

When you know to laugh and when to look upon things as too absurd to take seriously, the other person is ashamed to carry through even if he was serious about it.