Ubiquity is the new exclusivity.

You have to treat everyone you meet as if they are the most important person in the world - because they are. If not to you, then to someone; and if not today, then perhaps tomorrow.

GRIT is Guts, Resilience, Industriousness and Tenacity. GRIT is the ability to focus, stay determined, stay optimistic in the face of a challenge, and simply work harder than the next guy or gal.

As someone who grew up in the Bronx, I certainly learned my share of four-letter words, but none are more powerful than nice.

When you accept that you may fail, you can accomplish anything. Fear can be so debilitating. Every day I'm faced with difficult decisions, but losing the fear helps me make the right choices.

When you accept that you may fail, you can accomplish anything.

The universe rings true whenever you fairly test it.

Men are born to sin…What does matter most, is not that we err, it is that we do benefit from our mistakes, that we are capable of sincere repentance, of genuine contrition.

I had some really dear friends who died from AIDS-one in particular. His family wasn't around and he didn't have many friends. I spent a lot of time with him in his later days.

I carry out my work thus: I never use models or nature for the figure, drapery or anything else.

You might say that I'm the Michelangelo of the dress business.

Set goals, challenge yourself, and achieve them. Live a healthy life...and make every moment count. Rise above the obstacles, and focus on the positive.

The more perfect our means of direct experience, the more easily we are caught by the dangerous illusion that perceiving is tantamount to knowing and understanding.

The smartest thing I ever did was to hire my weakness.

It was a particularly good evening to begin a book.

You told a lie, an odious damned lie; Upon my soul, a lie, a wicked lie.