When they first arrive, really, my eyes bleed! It's only when they're about to leave that they become people you might want to know.

Are there a lot of designers that matter? The industry hasn’t got a litmus test any more. The whole thing has imploded. Watch it die, like the banking industry

A lot of people believe that you don't need to know the history and that creates newness. I disagree: we should always be informed and then destroy it.

I often ask students: 'Is this what you would show Tom Ford?' and they say: 'No, we'd have done more work' or 'We'd have dressed better.' So I say: 'Why don't you do that here?'

I never really liked Italy. 'Lots of cement' is my long-standing quote.

Beauty is beauty.

Make your desire for a better life stronger than your desire to stay in misery.

Be the great person you ought to be.

Sail through the good days, and on bad days pick a spot of blue sky to steer toward.

Luck came to those who left a space for it.

By the time we've made it, we've had it.

Without optimism & self-belief among teachers, classrooms become wastelands of boredom & routine and schools deserts of lost opportunity.

If you can look in your mother's eyes and she's proud of you, then you're a champion.

There's two ways of working in Washington, ... One is to go along and get along. The other is to stand up for what you believe in.

Delusions are often functional. A mother's opinions about her children's beauty, intelligence, goodness, et cetera ad nauseam, keep her from drowning them at birth.