Tom Ford just started at Gucci and was getting great notoriety - like Madonna wearing that head-to-toe velvet suit at the MTV awards. I remember it like it was yesterday.

There weren't paparazzi standing outside. There weren't all these photographers. People really didn't know what fashion was and what was happening in the tents.

I was pretty much a minimalist. I liked a lot of black at the time, which is very different from my wardrobe now, because I live in color.

I had a very different vibe then, I was very into minimalism. I was kind of obsessed with Helmut Lang and [Martin] Margiela.

What we considered to be so much part of our everyday fashion vocabulary today, where we see all these designers restarting with these big houses, was just beginning then [in the 90th].

Prayer is powerful, but prayer combined with action creates miracles.

The Holy Spirit opens the inner recesses of our hearts and enables us to see the moral cesspools hidden there.

Don't spend time beating on a wall hoping to transform it into a door.

To acquire money requires valor, to keep money requires prudence, and to spend money well is an art.

Everything I do is under scrutiny. And one of the things different, I think, about me is that my life has been a very, very open book.

What you see as cosmos is a living mind - intelligent space.

On the very instant that we know that our assailant intends us serious physical harm, we must work just as fast as we can.

That is what Americans do. We face a challenge - no matter how great - because we know that on the other side there is always hope.

I continued studying by myself in the field of jazz with my own technique of improvisation, walking bass lines, rhythms, all kinds of stuff, which I created for myself.

There's so much talk about the system. And so little understanding.