Be careful not to compromise what you want most for what you want now.

Motivation is the fuel, necessary to keep the human engine running.

Motivation gets you going and habit gets you there.

Your attitude, not your aptitude, will determine your altitude.

Remember that failure is an event, not a person.

There is no elevator to success. You have to take the stairs.

You don't have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great

When obstacles arise, you change your direction to reach your goal; you do not change your decision to get there.

Until you are happy with who you are, you will never be happy with what you have.

F-E-A-R has two meanings: 'Forget Everything And Run' or 'Face Everything And Rise.' The choice is yours.

There is no elevator to success, you have to take the stairs.

The purpose of all the major religious traditions is not to construct big temples on the outside, but to create temples of goodness and compassion inside, in our hearts.

Take it slow. We want to know what’s ahead before what’s ahead knows we’re here.

The essence of fascism is to make laws forbidding everything and then enforce them selectively against your enemies.

You have to climb to reach a deep thought.

Leadership is demonstrated at the moment of need. You learn to be a leader by acting, by doing

And when I look back I recognize now that I indeed do come from a large family of artists. Whether they necessarily realize it or not.

Afflictions are the steps to heaven.

I don't believe in balance, not in the classic way.

I wanted to be a poet and/or an artist, but I was very lazy (frightened of failure, I guess) and drank too much.

I brought color to bridal. There was one whole season of blush. If you think about the bareness, the illusion (fabric), the corsets that I did in bridal, they were trends in ready-to-wear, too.