I really wish I had invented the flip-flop. I love flip-flops. It's the one style of shoe I would be so proud of inventing: the Havaiana.

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.

Le spectacle est la reconstruction matérielle de l'illusion religieuse.

Health is a human necessity

Say what you think; think what you mean.

The artistic impulse seems not to wish to produce finished work. It certainly deserts us half-way, after the idea is born; and if we go on, it is labor.

Just imagine that you are the person you want to be.

There are sometimes beauties in a character which would never have appeared but for a defect, and defects which would never have appeared but for a beauty.

I have a weird life because I live on songwriting royalties, which are a strange income. Sometimes it rains, sometimes it doesn't.

In L.A. like there's a lot of like materialism and, you know, people who think they're better than each other because of the clothes they wear or how they dress and in Oakland it's not like that.

I pray every day for all who are suffering in Iraq. Please join me.

If God created us in his own image, we have more than reciprocated.