Bonfire of the Vanities: The lesson of that book is, never start believing your own press.

There are not many original shapes or silhouettes -- only a million variations.

The standard formulation on remedy is that it ought to cure past violations and prevent their recurrence. That's what antitrust is all about.

A great designer does not seek acceptance. He challenges popularity, and by the force of his convictions renders popular in the end what the public hates at first sight.

Fashion, after all, is magic and miracle…intended to bestow proportion and beauty where both have been lost or faded with the years.

All creative work begins by doing something with the hands. Creation is simply a problem and design is the way out.

Forget all you know & learn something every day.

Cut in dressmaking is like grammar in language. A good design should be like a well made sentence and it should only express one idea at a time.

There is no man who hates the power of the crown more, or who has a worse opinion of the Person to whom it belongs than I.

All my seams have meaning - they emphasize something about the body.

I spent my life making fashion an art form.

I could die for you. But I couldn't, and wouldn't, live for you.

I have found that it is the small everyday deed of ordinary folks that keep the darkness at bay. Small acts of kindness and love." ~ Gandalf (J. R. R. Tolkein ~ The Hobbit)

People who always arrive early aren't worth waiting for.

Death is the principal limitator of opportunities, progress & life.

Events don’t make a person interesting. It’s who they are and what’s inside them that makes them interesting.

Nothing spoils human nature more than false zeal. The good nature of a heathen is more God-like than the furious zeal of a Christian.

And out of all the movies, I don't know what it is, I'll always sit down and watch our 'Footloose'. I cry, I get excited, I cheer, my heart pounds. I really enjoy it.

No one gets remembered for the things they didn't do

I have a fear of heights that borders on mania.

He who has no vision of eternity has no hold on time.