Quotes by Gloria Vanderbilt

“. . . one of the goals of life is to try and be in touch with ones most personal themes -- the values, ideas, styles, colors that are the touchstones of ones own individual life, its real texture and substance.”

“That is the best - to laugh with someone because you think the same things are funny”

“The fame you earn has a different taste from the fame that is forced upon you”

“Ive always believed that one womans success can only help another womans success.”

“Sinatra created a kind of magic. You want those people to be part of your life.”

“We would have second thoughts about using her again.”

“We would have second thoughts about using Kate Moss again. We werent aware of any issues with Kate prior to this campaign.”

“He had the greatest gift of all, the ability to love without fear.”

To be happy--one must find ones bliss

Years ago I asked my friend, the great actress Ruth Gordon, to articulate in a few words the secret to her indomitable, unsinkable spirit. Her reply was a gift that became a mantra for me:“It takes courage.It takes believing in it.It takes work.It takes rising above it.It takes me liking you, and you liking me.It takes the dreaming soul of the human race that wants it to go right.Never stop dreaming.Think about it.

Ive always believed that one womans success can only help another womans success.

Death is the price you paid for being born.

That is the best-to laugh with someone because you think the same things are funny.

Im in love with beauty and things and people and love and being in love, and those things, I think, on the inside, show on the outside.

I do take very good care of myself, and Im always in love. And by that I mean I have an appetite for life. Im in love with beauty and things and people and love and being in love, and those things I think, on the inside, show on the outside.

If youve never had a mother or a father, you grow up seeking something youre never going to find, ever. You seek it in love and in people and in beauty.

All art, from the paintings on the walls of cave dwellers to art created today, is autobiographical because it comes from the secret place in the soul where imagination resides.

“To be happy--one must find ones bliss”