I never had a plan. I have to say, I'm very shocked when people start a company and say, 'In five years I want to launch a perfume, or in 10 years I want to have this.' How can you know?

Shoes transform your body language and attitude. They lift you physically and emotionally.

To feel like a woman, wear heels, to feel like a goddess, wear five inches.

I would hate for someone to look at my shoes and say, 'Oh my God! That looks so comfortable!'

Men are like bulls. They cannot resist the red sole.

A woman carries her clothes. But the shoe carries the woman.

Shoes are just a pedestal. What interests me is the power of the woman who wears them.

Istanbul is inspiring because it has its own code of architecture, literature, poetry, music.

The higher the better. It's more about an attitude. High heels empower women in a way.

It's a good addition. There are so many bad addictions. Better be addicted to shoes than something else

The stiletto is a feminine weapon that men just don't have.

What is too absurd to be believed is believed because it is too absurd to be a lie.

heavily tattooed women can be said to control and subvert the ever-present 'male gaze' by forcing men (and women) to look at their bodies in a manner that exerts control.

Change begets change as much as repetition reinforces repetition.

People may be in awe of perfection, but they warm to humanity.

People are studying whether there's a cause of action that competitors, for example, would have if they're harmed by these foreign government payments.

You need sucky things in life to make you stronger.

The Christian faith begins not with a big DO but with a big DONE.

It's a strange courage you give me ancient star: Shine alone in the sunrise toward which you lend no part!

One of my friends committed suicide when I was in high school, and it's the most tragic thing anybody can go through.