I am guilty of stupidity, arrogance, and greed.

You have to be a little contrite to get redemption.

People are afraid because I'm candid. They're always worried I'm going to get into trouble.

There are a lot of people who get support from a thriving business.

I could design an $800 shoe line it's easy. You use the best materials and you can make beautiful shoes. It's easier than making great shoes for $90.

I'm a New York story.

Growing is an important part of the business, but more important than that is to get better.

I don't fret much about the natural life spans of shoe companies. If stores don't do the right things, they cease to exist, and that doesn't trouble me at all.

My strengths as a businessman lie in the design and sale of women's shoes, and I have never been comfortable with complicated or technical legal or business documents.

I've been making shoes my whole life.

So much of design is context.

Not even waste/is inviolate./The day misspent, /the love misplaced, /has inside it/the seed of redemption./Nothing is exempt from resurrection.

All that is needed to set us definitely on the road to a Fascist society is war. It will of course be a modified form of Fascism at first.

Hugh Grant does a great job with his style. Somehow understated yet timeless and seems to get it. He does it on and off camera.

Love and nonattachment are the basis of true generosity.

There is no safe standard to tell man from animals.

Do not waste this life in vain pursuits.

Madoff's scam was small compared to Ponzi schemes the government itself runs: Social Security and Medicare.

Back in the day, a pair of tight jeans was enough to earn a girl a bad reputation. Now slutty has gone Main Street.

I think the entire world knows, and North Korea knows, that if they used any weapons on our soldiers they would be obliterated. And it would be an overwhelming response.

You have to have the time to feel sorry for yourself in order to be a good abstract expressionist.