I firmly believe that Harper's Bazaar is the star. I am there to make it the best it possibly can be, but there should be no confusion. I want to put Harper's Bazaar front and center.

Fashion is much more than product. It's about entertainment and people feeling a part of something.

To me, I always listen to what my instincts tell me. The biggest mistakes I've ever made is when I've ignored what I know to be true in my heart.

I love the return of sweetness and lace. Ladylike dressing is back and it's beautiful.

I was always a great believer in starting at the top. I really think that focusing on a career and working your way up is way way way overestimated.

Life's too short not to enjoy what you're working on.

Knowing when you're not good at something and knowing when you are good at something is an art-form.

Alexey Brodovitch used to say, "Astonish me." We as the team at Bazaar hear that everyday because we want to surprise people.

I want technology to work for me, and my readers. People get confused that technology comes first. The ideas come first. You need to use the medium.

Nobody wants to be the same as anybody else.

It's just as important to let go and let somebody do what they're best at and other times, I'm very determined to get exactly what I know we need. It's that balance.

You do not belong to yourself, you belong to God

I think to say that meditation is helpful to artists is true and it's great, but it's also essentially helpful to any kind of process of, just, life.

If you properly clean a room, it gets dirtier before it gets cleaner.

The rain increases and umbrellas sprout like mushrooms amongst the graves.

Orderly discipline and morale within an army was the responsibility of the Division Commander.

Politics is a jungle-torn between doing the right thing and staying in office.

My goal is to try to be as happy as I can - going through every day just as it is.

Branch Rickey once said of me that I was a man with an infinite capacity for immediately making a bad thing worse.

Never abandon imagination

The summer night was starless and stirless, with distant spasms of silent lightning.