God was fair to the Japanese. He gave them no oil, no coal, no diamonds, no gold, no natural resources — nothing! Nothing comes from the island that you can sustain a civilization on. What God gave the Japanese was a sense of style—maintained through the centuries through hard work and the disciplines of ambition.

How boring to copy the past -- with all the magnificence of today and tomorrow.

Pink is the navy blue of India.

The first thing to do is to arrange to be born in Paris. After that, everything follows quite naturally.

Parents, you know, can be terrible.

If you had a bump on your nose, it made no difference so long as you had a marvelous body & good carriage. You held your head high, & you were a beauty You knew how to water-ski, & how to take a jet plane fast in the morning, arrive anywhere, & be anyone when you got off.

Don't look left nor right and never compete. Never. Watching the other guy is what kills all forms of energy.