I decided if it was going to be a mistake to come to New York and try and make a career in fashion, then it was going to be my mistake... But the American dream is real. I'm living it.

A beautiful woman is a beautiful woman, but a beautiful woman with a brain is an absolutely lethal combination.

Nails are the period at the end of the sentence. They complete the look

I make 98% of my collection in New York City and am generating jobs, so fashion isn't just frivolous for me. I understand levity about it. I also understand the depth of it.

I'm not a believer of luck. I think opportunity and hard work becomes luck.

I'm fascinated by furniture design and interiors, and I want to try designing all that stuff.

There's such a feeling of satisfaction when something you imagined turned into something real.

A modern Woman is not necessarily...s omeone who just buys expensive stuff... ...a modern Woman is someone who buys intelligently.

I mean, I can cook, but I'd get very nervous having my food being judged by dinner guests.

There is one universal truth: All women, all over the world, want to look beautiful. That is always the theme of my designs.

I love draping; it's less about proportion than fit and the fabric. It's very specialized and I think when women see the construction, they respond to it immediately.

There is within the human heart a quality of intelligence which has been known to surpass that attributed to the human mind.

He who thinks they know it all, is bound to take the greatest fall.

Every threat to the status quo is an opportunity in disguise.

Sixty years ago I knew everything now I know nothing education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.

I don't idolize anyone or aspire to be like anyone.

It is not children only that one feeds with fairy tales.

In black America there's such a thing as passing, the black people who are light skinned and they will pass for white.

Whatever position we may rise to, be it of MP, CM or PM, nothing can teach us the way villages can.

The main reason I want someone to read a story of mine is so they can enjoy it and feel like they got something interesting out of it.

I believe in Liberty for all men: the space to stretch their arms and their souls.