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.

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.

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 am guilty of stupidity, arrogance, and greed.

I've been making shoes my whole life.

So much of design is context.

Aeschylus writes, "In our sleep, pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom through the awful grade of God.

The feminists had destroyed the old image of woman, but they could not erase the hostility, the prejudice, the discrimination that still remained.

Love is waiting, just around the corner, over the hill...

My mom raised me to be clean, so it's in my nature. I have two little girls, and I'm married, but we've got a nanny and a maid.

Individuals who are really inspirational are always what changes history. Gandhi had a bunch of good ideas, and he led a non - violent revolution that transformed India.

Remember, success for a politician is 50% plus one. You don't have to have everybody on board.

It's really inspiring to know that your publisher is so behind you. It makes you want to put forth your best work.

Be aware of every square millimeter of your frame.

You know what my favourite quotation is?.. It's from Chaucer... Criseyde says it, "I am myne owene woman, wel at ese."

This world is a vast unbroken totality, a deep solidarity joins its contrary powers.