I never really understood fashion as a career. For me, it was really a state of mind, more like something that I always had in my life.

In life I will fall, I will backslide, but mark my word I will never give up.

Architecture has joined the world of fashion, but fashion is passing and architecture is timeless.

People deal too much with the negative, with what is wrong. Why not try and see positive things, to just touch those things and make them bloom?

We who officially value freedom of speech above life itself seem to have nothing to talk about but the weather.

Believe in the power of songs.

It takes true strength of character to redefine your limits by pushing past them.

For out of doubt In these affairs 'tis each man's will itself That gives the start, and hence throughout our limbs Incipient motions are diffused.

In Germany, salads are assemblies of ham and mayonnaise, not trendy tossed leaves.

Simplicity in all things is the secret of the wilderness and one of its most valuable lessons

When I first ran for Congress in 1998, people counted me out.