I wish I was making shoes instead of reading or watching movies, which is what I do in my free time.

There is nothing charming about a woman who cannot walk in her shoes.

The secret of toe cleavage, a very important part of the sexuality of the shoe; you must only show the first two cracks.

Shoes are the quickest way for women to achieve instant metamorphosis.

I love exaggerated, and I love eccentric, but you must be comfortable. Otherwise it is nonsense. There is nothing charming about a woman who cannot walk in her shoes.

People walk differently in high heels. Your body sways to a different kind of tempo.

You put high heels on and you change.

About half my designs are controlled fantasy, 15 percent are total madness and the rest are bread-and-butter designs.

The imprint of Miss Hepburn is absolutely, totally present. Like it or not, she will be the most important look of the twentieth century.

It's the only thing I get inspired by! I get inspired by dreams. Who cares about the rest?

The greatest luxury is being free.

Most people's lives are fuzzy. That's the problem with the world. No one stops to think.

When a man is guided by the principles of reciprocity and consciousness, he is not far from the moral law. Whatever you don't wish for yourself don't do unto others.

Poets, the first instructors of mankind, Brought all things to the proper native use.

I have an advanced degree in procrastination and another one in paranoia.

Don't be entitled - earn your success.

The brave may not live forever, but the cautious do not live at all.

Daniel Patrick Moynihan is the archetypal extremely smart person who went into politics anyway instead of doing something worthwhile for his country.

Protection of children from violence and abuse has always been my main activity or campaign.

It is the greatest good for an individual to discuss virtue (aka areté) every day...for the unexamined life is not worth living.

That is to be two and to be but one. A man and a woman mingled into one angel. It is heaven.