The connection between dress and war is not far to seek; your finest clothes are those you wear as soldiers.

That’s another hallmark of truth, is that it snaps things together. People write to me all the time and say it’s as if things were coming together in my mind. It’s like the Platonic idea that all learning was remembering. You have a nature, and when you feel that nature articulated, it’s it’s like the act of snapping the puzzle pieces together.

A women who doesn’t wear perfume has no future.

I have more suits than days of the year that I get to wear them.

The free soul is rare, but you know it when you see it – basically because you feel good, very good, when you are near or with them.

Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.

War is an instrument entirely inefficient toward redressing wrong; and multiplies, instead of indemnifying losses.

The people of Northern Ireland have sorted out my whole life.

It was times like these when I thought my father, who hated guns and had never been to any wars, was the bravest man who ever lived.

Fashion breaks my heart.

There is always inequality in life. Some men are killed in a war and some men are wounded and some men never leave the country. Life is unfair.

War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good. We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other’s children.

Love… it surrounds every being and extends slowly to embrace all that shall be.

Every natural object is a conductor of divinity and only by coming into contact with them… may we be filled with the Holy Ghost.

There is no avoiding war; it can only be postponed to the advantage of others.

When I’m dancing, I’m not thinking about anything. I am here. I am totally there. You know? And the feeling is a sensation of being away from myself. My soul dances with the angels, and my body dances with my wife.

Reactionaries often describe both Marx and Lenin as theorists, without taking into consideration that their utopias inspired Russia and China – the two countries called upon to lead a new world which will allow for human survival if imperialism does not first unleash a criminal, exterminating war.

I’m not trying to be fashionable. Never was!

I know war as few other men now living know it, and nothing to me is more revolting. I have long advocated its complete abolition, as its very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a method of settling international disputes.

I think dress, hairstyle and make-up are the crucial factors in projecting an attractive persona and give one the chance to enhance one’s best physical features.

We lived in a tall, narrow Victorian house, which my parents had bought very cheaply during the war, when everyone thought London was going to be bombed flat. In fact, a V-2 rocket landed a few houses away from ours. I was away with my mother and sister at the time, but my father was in the house.

War is a game that is played with a smile. If you can’t smile, grin. If you can’t grin, keep out of the way till you can.

Britishness is just a way of putting things together and a certain don’t care attitude about clothes. You don’t care, you just do it and it looks great.

Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn’t really do it, they just saw something. It seemed obvious to them after a while. That’s because they were able to connect experiences they’ve had and synthesize new things.

As this long and difficult war ends, I would like to address a few special words to the American people: Your steadfastness in supporting our insistence on peace with honor has made peace with honor possible.

I very rarely watch my own fashion shows, but the makeup for my Fall 2011 show was just brilliant.

The intention and outcome of vulnerability is trust, intimacy and connection. The outcome of oversharing is distrust, disconnection – and usually a little judgment.

One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.

When you look at the sun during your walking meditation, the mindfulness of the body helps you to see that the sun is in you; without the sun there is no life at all and suddenly you get in touch with the sun in a different way.

I think tattoos are horrible. It’s like living in a Pucci dress full-time.

I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality… I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word.

We did not raise armies for glory or for conquest.

The most important thing I can tell you about aging is this: If you really feel that you want to have an off-the-shoulder blouse and some big beads and thong sandals and a dirndl skirt and a magnolia in your hair, do it. Even if you’re wrinkled.

I want to look my best for God. So many people have the attitude that if you’re a Christian you’ve got to dress bad, wear an old color, not do anything to your hair, have nothing. It’s no wonder that Christianity is not very attractive. I mean, how many people do you know in a Western culture that’s going to go, ‚Yeah, give me some of that?‘

If we desire to avoid insult, we must be able to repel it; if we desire to secure peace, one of the most powerful instruments of our rising prosperity, it must be known, that we are at all times ready for War.

A fashion is nothing but an induced epidemic.

Sitting on a bedroom floor crying is something that makes you feel really alone. If someone’s singing about that feeling, you feel bonded to that person.

It is not enough to say we must not wage war. It is necessary to love peace and sacrifice for it.

When people speak to you about a preventive war, you tell them to go and fight it. After my experience, I have come to hate war.

All the awards in the world, you can get into all the nightclubs, they’ll send you the nicest clothes. Nothing better than walking into your dad’s restaurant and seeing a smile on his face and knowing that your mom and dad and your sister are real proud of you.

A lot of the reason my look is the way it is, is because it’s really easy to put on a sundress every night if I have to perform – or just wear jeans every day and a flannel or something.

I wear wigs all the time on shows, and every day when I’m in public, at Dollywood. People say, ‚How many wigs do you have?‘ And I say, ‚Well, at least 365 because I wear at least one a day.‘

I barely can go shopping for clothes. I find it difficult to walk into stores. The whole thing bores me so much.

I wouldn’t say that anyone in fashion is on my side. I don’t think there’s anyone on my side.

War should be the only study of a prince. He should consider peace only as a breathing-time, which gives him leisure to contrive, and furnishes as ability to execute, military plans.

My connection with Brazil is so abstract. My blood and my way of thinking is Brazilian, but that’s it. I don’t tend to go back to the past, and although I have an apartment there, I rarely visit. When I move, I really move.

War is a way of shattering to pieces… materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses too comfortable and… too intelligent.

One never reaches home, but wherever friendly paths intersect the whole world looks like home for a time.

I have a scheme for stopping war. It’s this – no nation is allowed to enter a war till they have paid for the last one.

Information helps you to see that you’re not alone. That there’s somebody in Mississippi and somebody in Tokyo who all have wept, who’ve all longed and lost, who’ve all been happy. So the library helps you to see, not only that you are not alone, but that you’re not really any different from everyone else.

Sometimes it’s a form of love just to talk to somebody that you have nothing in common with and still be fascinated by their presence.

Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends.

I started wearing Ugg when I was, like, 13 or 14, in high school, and my mom got me a pair for Christmas one year.

The absurd depends as much on man as on the world. For the moment, it is all that links them together.

Good humor is one of the best articles of dress one can wear in society.

It is not only the living who are killed in war.

Don’t dress to kill, dress to survive.

My humanity is bound up in yours, for we can only be human together.

I’ve worn dresses from all different price ranges, and the thing that couture dresses have in common is that the fit is amazing.

Fashion is made to become unfashionable.

War contributes greatly to global warming, which shouldn’t surprise us. All those bombs going off, all those rockets, all those planes and helicopters. All that fuel of various kinds being used. It pollutes the air and water of this very fragile and interconnected planet.