I learnt just how little it takes to survive, which is why I don’t waste things – food, money, friendships or opportunities.

I have no problem with whatever the next big look is. Just don't try and tell me that only one look is beautiful.

For me, there has never been one definition of beauty. I think we all have something to offer and when beauty shines from within, there can be no denying it

You can't buy enlightenment, but you can hire a mirror so you can watch it happen.

You don't have to go with the crowd.

To have this opportunity, in light of my familys struggles, made me want to create something lasting and relevant.

I'm trying to grow older with wisdom.

Not everyone is selfish in fashion. There are people who go to bed feeling good about themselves and then spread the love.

Pressure only makes you sick. You won't get anything positive out of it.

I wore hot pants and cowboy boots and I thought, 'What have I gotten myself into?'

Maybe I do have a few more dresses, but I'm just like everyone else.

Many kids, it seemed, would find out that their parents were flawed, messed-up people later in life, and I didn't appreciate getting to know it all so strong and early.

Justice and truth are two such subtle points, that our tools are too blunt to touch them accurately.

I started to put on weight when I was about four and a half and it got really bad when I was around nine. I ballooned. I was about 110 pounds.

If a place is in your blood, you leave it at your peril. You will never be happy anywhere else.

Don't forget, I've been fired by studios; I'm not the studio's guy. I'm a guy who can work with studios, but if you ask any studio, I stand up to these people.

I was escaping from Nature and at last becoming myself, that Other whom I was aspiring to be in the eyes of others.

The militia is our ultimate safety. We can have no security without it. The great object is that every man be armed.

the engrossing pursuit of Americans is wealth.

I'm very proud that a woman, has finally been chosen as a candidate for the president of the United States, because I always felt women should be treated like first-class citizens.

Whoso has sixpence is sovereign (to the length of sixpence) over all men; commands cooks to feed him, philosophers to teach him, kings to mount guard over him,to the length of sixpence.