“London Fashion Week isn't the most organised, but I don't mind that. It's such an exciting place - it's small and cool.”

“Thinking differently is my strength.”

“I think it's less common in France that a man at the age of 50 buys a Porsche and gets a young girlfriend.”

“Each morning, you dress to become a different woman. Fashion helps.”

“It is very wrong to sleep in your make-up, but when you wake up the next morning, I think it looks very good.”

“Each morning I do my ballet class for one hour; after that, it means one hour less to get ready.”

“I don't like work--no man does--but I like what is in the work--the chance to find yourself. Your own reality--for yourself not for others--what no other man can ever know. They can only see the me...”

“Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.”

“Earning happiness means doing good and working, not speculating and being lazy. Laziness may look inviting, but only work gives you true satisfaction.”

“The only person who needs to know about failure is yourself.”

“I have tried every diet to lose weight. When you restrict yourself, you're setting yourself up for failure.”

“We've all experienced those days when we feel like an absolute failure. It's a normal feeling when things don't go as exactly planned. And, when we feel like that, it's challenging to think of your...”

“Highly organized research is guaranteed to produce nothing new.”

“Cutting off fundamental, curiosity-driven science is like eating the seed corn. We may have a little more to eat next winter but what will we plant so we and our children will have enough to get th...”

“Research is the process of going up alleys to see if they are blind.”