I think the greatest reward I have is getting up and going to work each day. I love what I do.

The qualities I most admire in women are confidence and kindness.

Regardless of how good or bad a collection might be, it's a letdown after the show is over. It's done. Something you've worked on for months is just over.

Be the designer of your own destiny.

It’s not about what you wear, but about how you live your life

You have to appreciate every single day that you're alive. Life is a little bit like a garden - you have to find time to plant the seeds for beautiful flowers to grow.

Every day you have to reinvent yourself

A fragrance is like a signature, so that even after a woman leaves the room, her fragrance should reveal she's been there.

Fashion is about dressing according to what's fashionable. Style is more about being yourself.

Walk like you have three men walking behind you.

Things never happen on accident. They happen because you have a vision, you have a commitment, you have a dream.

There is no truth without faith. Nothing is proven except to the heart of one who believes.

I founded this school for the masses.

There is a chasm between me and the world outside of me. A gap so wide my feelings can't cross it. By the time my screams reach the other side, they have dwindled into groans.

I think sharing experience makes everything better. When people get talking about how they've overcome something or how they haven't, it's nourishing.

Sometimes people do get hurt

We must unite to make nuclear weapons a horror of the past.

By cool Siloam's shady rill How sweet the lily grows! How sweet the breath beneath the hill Of Sharon's dewy rose!

I auditioned for 'Cats' - I didn't sing but I was able to cough up a hairball.

I am paraphrasing Einstein. I love to do that: nobody dares contradict me.

I don't hang out with agents and producers and I'm not into the business side at all.