The good of other times let people state; I think it lucky I was born so late.

My hopes are not always realized, but I always hope.

A horse never runs so fast as when he has other horses to catch up and outpace.

Quarrels are the dowry which married folk bring one another.

Be patient and tough; someday this pain will be useful to you.

Make the workmanship surpass the materials.

Love is no assignment for cowards.

Happy is the man who has broken the chains which hurt the mind, and has given up worrying once and for all.

The man who has experienced shipwreck shudders even at a calm sea.

Dripping water hollows out stone, not through force but through persistence.

If you want to be loved, be lovable.

Be careful when rising to the top. Be more careful when you get there. The higher you go, the riskier it gets. Be careful. Be very careful.

I think being really connected to a higher power, of having a spirituality to me, has been really good for me and I pray all the time.

But I'd say my best boss was Tom Barr, who was a partner at Cravath, Swain & Moore in the 1960s. It's because I learned so much from him.

I wish the press was fair. They're really dishonest. The media is really dishonest. It's incredible.

Diss me and you'll never hear a reply for it

I'm based in Atlanta so there weren't a lot of people to talk to about fashion because no one was really doing it on the scale that I wanted to do it. I had to do a lot of research on my own.

Where beauty ends is where the artist begins

I don't like to get pigeonholed. I don't like it when people think they have you sewn up.

Persecution readily knits friendship between its victims.

Every jacket I make has interior pockets big enough to store a book and a sandwich and a passport.