If you don't acquire the discipline to push through a personal low point, you will miss the reward that comes with persevering.

I have realized that whatever good comes to me, comes from God, whatever bad comes to me, God has allowed it, and I choose to be thankful for both.

Struggle shapes our character. And character dictates what we will become.

We who were born into privilege and opportunity were given these gifts with an expectation: to give them away.

..."I Love You."...Means the same to me now as it did when I first said it to you.

We are torn between a nostalgia for the familiar and an urge for the foreign and strange. As often as not, we are homesick most for the places we have never known

Only a prostitute will trade her valuables for money, so you shouldn't sell your God given ideas and talents for money, because you don't own it in any way but should be by a divine authority.

We can't shame women for trying to be beautiful. That's so mean and unfair. But there's a part of me that thinks it's really sad, too. It's very complicated.

Whatever is about you that is translated into your art, that's gonna keep you completly original and fresh and I just think that, that's just the best advice I can give, to an artist creatively.

Truth is the ricochet of a prejudice bouncing off a fact.

There's this presence of these missing people and this lost community that I felt but could not see, and that was a very strange dissonance for me.

As a designer I like to work with fabrics that don't bleed. That's why I avoid all animal skins.

The collective income of all these people - the bottom half - is less than three percent of global household income, and so there is a grotesque maldistribution of income and wealth.

There are no right answers to wrong questions.