If you cut a painter's hands off, he'd still feel the urge to pick up a brush.

We look our best in subdued colors, sophisticated cuts, and a general air of sleek understatement.

If I had the power, I would ban leggings.

I like femininity, not of the devout, but of the self-assured, cool and sophisticated kind.

I am convinced that there can be luxury in simplicity.

I think there is always a need for pure design. With pure design, you don't need so much decoration.

I feel very strongly that clothes that fit well make a person feel better. It's maybe half the value of the merchandise.

In the end, you can' t talk to everyone.

One glass of water doesn't equal another. One may just appease the thirst, the other you may enjoy thoroughly. In Japan, people know about this difference.

It may sound ambitious, but I really hope that modern design will spread all around the globe.

I sometimes feel that a pattern is almost a fashion statement in itself.

The author and intellectual Cornel West has said that 'justice is what love looks like in public.' I often think that neoliberalism is what lovelessness looks like as policy.

The goal had been important only for the sake of finding the path to it.

I know from experience that females need a certain amount of chocolate. We have two of them in the house. I don't want them growing restless.

I think that people with differing points of view find common ground in 'Modern Family' is very flattering, and I'm appreciative of that.

I don't really write plots. I use history as the engine that drives everything.

I have always been the lover - never the beloved - and I have spent much of my life waiting for trains, planes, boats, footsteps, doorbells, letters, telephones, snow, rain, thunder.

We usually surprised everyone, and still do, as we keep the craziness onstage.

Grace means that God already loves us as much as an infinite God can possibly love.

I am very conscious that I am not wise at all.

There are 100,000 actors in the Screen Actors Guild. Only 2,000 of them make more than $75,000 a year.