I have been in the field working with my birds for 36 years and I don't think a day goes by that I don't see or learn something new.

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 am guilty of stupidity, arrogance, and greed.

I've been making shoes my whole life.

This is our big chance to see what people think of us. The real us. We have to show em there's nothing to be afraid of. If we don't get over our fears, they never will.

... People were never quite what you thought they were.

I can very well do without God both in my life and in my painting, but I cannot, suffering as I am, do without something which is greater than I, which is my life, the power to create.

Perfection is insignificant. Is boring.

Sloth is the failure to do what needs to be done when it needs to be done - like the kamikaze pilot who flew seventeen missions.

'Vote Love' means vote equality. It means vote change. It means vote what's right for humanity.

I've seen enough things to know that if you just keep on going, if you turn the corner, the sun will be shining.

Every time I see a good play or watch a good movie, I have the same feeling I had as a child of wanting to be that person on stage or wanting to run through the forest with a big dress on.

I'm not a very dark person.

Hardy thinks they're cheering for him. I'm not going to tell him differently.