So you do need to make a plan for the next three or 30 years, but also the next 300 or 3,000 years. - Brunello Cucinelli

I nearly always wear almost the very same things. But I alter the combinations slightly.

I have 5,000 books in my home, 1,000 of which I feel are close to my heart. They have always shown me the way. Books are my great passion; I could not live without them.

In the winter on a Sunday afternoon, I can spend six hours in front of the fireplace, just looking at the flames and thinking. In the evening, I’m drunk with beautiful thoughts. My wife says to me, ‘What are you looking at?’ I say, ‘The fire.’ We have to take a step backward.