Any man may be in good spirits and good temper when he’s well dressed. There ain’t much credit in that.

I’m my own worst critic, and if I don’t pull off what I think I wanted to do in my head, then I won’t be a happy girl.

Don’t wish it were easier, wish you were better.

The sexiest thing that a woman can do, wear, and say all fall under one word to me: subtlety. To be subtle in the things that she does and the things she says and the things she wears – I appreciate the details.

I have great faith in fools; self-confidence my friends call it.

I believe the first test of a truly great man is in his humility.

Joan of Arc had style. Jesus had style.

At twelve I looked like a girl of seventeen. My body was developed and shapely. I still wore the blue dress and the blouse the orphanage provided. They made me look like an overgrown lummox.

Instead of being concerned that you have no office, be concerned to think how you may fit yourself for office. Instead of being concerned that you are not known, seek to be worthy of being known.

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.

The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.

In order for me to be successful… In order to be a great artist – musician, actor, painter, whatever – you must be able to be private in public at all times. That is what we do.

Some men can live up to their loftiest ideals without ever going higher than a basement.

People pay for what they do, and still more for what they have allowed themselves to become. And they pay for it very simply; by the lives they lead.

There was a moment when designers draped in ermine would be reading Proust, or pretending to.

Fashion is an imposition, a reign on freedom.

I always teach myself calm and visualization stuff.

Wine makes a man more pleased with himself; I do not say it makes him more pleasing to others.

My performance outfits are very Marie Antoinette, sparkly corsets… and full skirts. And then we do another look that’s ’50s-inspired. Poufy skirts, big bows. Very fun, girlie and young, but otherwise, when I’m not in costume, I dress really normal.

Knowledge will give you power, but character respect.

If a person gets his attitude toward money straight, it will help straighten out almost every other area in his life.

One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.

Whatever I’m feeling, whatever I’m going through, whatever mood I’m in… If I’m feeling like dancing or clubbing, then it will be reflected in the music. If I’m feeling dark and vulnerable, then it will reflect in the music, too.

If something can corrupt you, you’re corrupted already.

I see so many guys, really athletic guys, wearing pleats and I just shake my head. Like, Tiger Woods used to wear pleated pants! I’m like, ‚C’mon, Tiger!‘

You’re never as good as everyone tells you when you win, and you’re never as bad as they say when you lose.

Every man is his own hell.

Judgements prevent us from seeing the good that lies beyond appearances.

I’m like 6’2 when I wear heels, so I tend to wear cowboy boots a lot.

The most valuable of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it has to be done, whether you like it or not.

In the Raphael Room, the secret turned out to be that only some of the paintings were made by the great master; the rest were made by students. I had liked the ones by Raphael. This was a big jab for my self-confidence in my ability to appreciate art.

I have too many clothes, I have too many options.

There’s nothing I have to hide or defend. I’m gonna live my life. And there are times when people wanna try to attack me, and I don’t know why, but they will. And that’s okay.

One of the things I realized is that if you do not take control over your time and your life, other people will gobble it up. If you don’t prioritize yourself, you constantly start falling lower and lower on your list, your kids fall lower and lower on your list.

It is what you read when you don’t have to that determines what you will be when you can’t help it.

Even when you’re 50, you can make the effort to improve your standards.

The big question about how people behave is whether they’ve got an Inner Scorecard or an Outer Scorecard. It helps if you can be satisfied with an Inner Scorecard.

When it comes down to it, glam rock was all very amusing. At the time, it was funny, then a few years later it became sort of serious-looking and a bit foreboding.

I break ground. I trailblaze.

Man is not the sum of what he has already, but rather the sum of what he does not yet have, of what he could have.

Mastery, I learned, was not something genetic, or for a lucky few. It is something we can all attain if get rid of some misconceptions and gain clarity as to the required path.

At the core, one of my original goals is to redefine what the streets expect.

Only a man’s character is the real criterion of worth.

The art of being a slave is to rule one’s master.

I always loved advertising. If I hadn’t been in fashion, I’d have been in advertising.

That’s all I could ever hope for, to have a positive effect on women. ‚Cos women are powerful, powerful beings. But they’re also the most doubtful beings. They’ll never know – we’ll never know – how powerful we are.

I don’t look at my old work. I mean, they made nice books; the books were made without me, the one from last year and the one from this year. I – personally, I’m not interested in my own past. I’m only interested in today – perhaps tomorrow.

A lot of people have said I’d have probably done better in my career if I hadn’t looked so cheap and gaudy. But I dress to be comfortable for me, and you shouldn’t be blamed because you want to look pretty.

By appreciation, we make excellence in others our own property.

All styles are good except the tiresome kind.

Man, the living creature, the creating individual, is always more important than any established style or system.

I spent three days a week for 10 years educating myself in the public library, and it’s better than college. People should educate themselves – you can get a complete education for no money. At the end of 10 years, I had read every book in the library and I’d written a thousand stories.

If you saw Queen Elizabeth it would be amazing, she came from another planet. She was so attractive in what she was wearing.

Skill is the unified force of experience, intellect and passion in their operation.

If you want to be successful, it’s just this simple. Know what you are doing. Love what you are doing. And believe in what you are doing.

Practice yourself, for heaven’s sake in little things, and then proceed to greater.

I’d rather be optimistic and wrong than pessimistic and right.

But ever since I was a kid, I was always the winner.

You have learnt something. That always feels at first as if you had lost something.

I should be a postage stamp, because that’s the only way I’ll ever get licked. I’m beautiful. I’m fast. I’m so mean I make medicine sick. I can’t possibly be beat.

My whole thing now is I know how to think properly to be successful in all aspects of my life. It’s not about ultra running or being a SEAL or pull-up records: it’s about if you want to be better you, have to change your perceived limitations and take the barriers down.