Bridal is always about who you are as a person and as a woman and as a lover and as a mate. People always ask me how a woman can pick just one dress. And the funny thing is they always know.

Success isn't about the end result; it's about what you learn along the way.

A woman is never sexier than when she is comfortable in her clothes.

When I design a wedding dress with a bustle, it has to be one the bride can dance in. I love the idea that something is practical and still looks great.

I was stigmatized by being a bridal designer for a long time. I am amazed I have been able to move beyond it. I had really all but given up trying, but I did it because it was my lifelong dream.

Don't be afraid to take time to learn. It's good to work for other people. I worked for others for 20 years. They paid me to learn.

I want people to see the dress, but focus on the woman.

Fashion offers no greater challenge than finding what works for night without looking like you are wearing a costume.

Even the most understated ceremony involves a certain respect for ritual and pageantry. No one plays more of a significant role than the bride's attendants.

When you have a passion for something then you tend not only to be better at it, but you work harder at it too.

Design is about point of view, and there should be some sort of woman or lifestyle or attitude in one's head as a designer.

Humans and animals regard each other across a gulf of mutual incomprehension. With aliens, that has to go double.

I am proof that one person can rise above any challenge, and if I can, then so will others if they are given the chance.

It is the vice of a vulgar mind to be thrilled by bigness.

I was caught in between all you wish for and all you need

Strange when you come to think of it, that of all countless folk who have lived on this planet, not one is known in history or in legend as having died of laughter.

Water and our necessary food are the only things that wise men must fight for.

I always have beauty around me, for I have but to go to my piano, and trace one of the million designs that have been made by my masters.

The Eternal looked upon me for a moment with His eye of power, and annihilated me in His being, and become manifest to me in His essence. I saw I existed through Him.

I was not a rebellious teenager. I was a sit-in-your-room teenager.

Ending racial discrimination in jury selection can be accomplished only by eliminating peremptory challenges entirely.