I love the tradition of changing gowns throughout the reception. I know it's a little extravagant, but why not - it's your moment.

I love intimate details like lingerie, something like a gorgeous silk stocking or exquisite slipper.

No matter how much I try to be plain, people don't accept me, so I might as well be fabulous.

I love when brides tell me they want to do something special and unique, but I'm not a fan of doing anything too crazy.

Each season I try to incorporate something new that corresponds to the timing and the trends in everyday fashion.

Living in New York, I get inspired by what young women are wearing - everything from high fashion to street fashion.

When designing a collection that is traditional, that has one specific sort of garment like a white dress, I think just being constantly attuned to trends really help.

Bridal is very much a performance - it is the one grand event in every woman's life.

There is definitely a correlation between theater and wedding fashion.

I think in the bridal world you definitely have to be on your toes at all times.

I think you can leave the arts, superior or inferior, to the conscience of mankind.

I like to see myself as a bridge builder, that is me building bridges between people, between races, between cultures, between politics, trying to find common ground.

[Personal] industry must be faint and languid, which is not excited by the sense of personal interest.

Nobody has a right to whip me but my own master, and nobody shall do so if I can prevent it

There is no horror, no amount of evil in the world, that a true believer can't rationalize as consistent with a loving God. It's the ultimate way of fooling yourself.

Praise leads to weakness. Getting it causes fear, losing it causes fear.

I have sketched since a young age, so there's always been an artistic side, a visual side to my personality.

The man who sets out to carry a cat by its tail learns something that will always be useful and which never will grow dim or doubtful.

The deeper the Self-realization of a man, the more he influences the whole universe by his subtle spiritual vibrations, and the less he himself is affected by the phenomenal flux.