Don't look to the approval of others for your mental stabili... - Karl Lagerfeld

"Books are a hard-bound drug with no danger of an overdose. I am the happy victim of books."

"Stuff your brain with knowledge."

"Don’t sacrifice yourself too much, because if you sacrifice too much there’s nothing else you can give and nobody will care for you."

"Reinvent new combinations of what you already own. Improvise. Become more creative. Not because you have to, but because you want to. Evolution is the secret for the next step."

"Dieting is the only game where you win when you lose!"