Oleg Cassini

A woman who laughs is a woman conquered.

A first date should be elegant. In comfortable surroundings. A place with excellent food, where you can talk easily and get to know each other.

I'm the first American designer who went all over the world.

Do not give in too much to feelings. A overly sensitive heart is an unhappy possession on this shaky earth.

But the battles against loneliness that I fought when I was 16 are very different from those I fought when I was 27, and those are very different from the ones I fight at 44.

I'm a big action junkie. I grew up on the '80s action movies - the bad ones and the good ones.