Guilt is perhaps the most painful companion of death.

Eat less than you think you want, eat with your intelligence, not your stomach. Never get up from the table with an inward, silent apology for being a pig.

A dress made right should allow one to walk, to dance, even to ride horseback.

If my boy had perished in a Nazi compound, I could never have gone on living. I would have killed myself.

True elegance consists not in having a closet bursting with clothes, but rather in having a few well-chosen numbers in which one feels totally at ease.

Nothing is ugly as long as it is alive.

Coquetry, it's a triumph of the spirit over the senses.