You have to focus on your dreams, even if they go beyond common sense.

Every time that I wanted to give up, if I saw an interesting textile, print what ever, suddenly I would see a collection.

To me, fashion is like a mirror. It's a reflection of the times. And if it doesn't reflect the times, it's not fashion. Because people aren't gonna be wearing it.

What people look to me for is a whole look. People come to me for icing on the cake, not a basic stretch pant.

The sexiest thing about a bikini is that it leaves something to the imagination, which is the best part.

I think that fashion has become such a big business and with globalization we are on new territory at this point. We are not just designing for a country we are designing for a world now.

I think I'm a global citizen. My parents came from China, were educated in France and emigrated to the United States. And I think that opened up my mind to be able to live and work anywhere.

I think you have to be in the right place at the right time. And understand that and know when it is your time and how you react to it and how you respond to it.

I’m always about optimism and exuberance. It’s what I feel about fashion.

To me if you're going have a show, it should be a show. It should be entertaining and take you on a journey.

A piece of fabric can get me going.

Deprived is the one who has never witnessed his own desperate need for God. Reliant on his own means, he forgets that the means, his own soul, and everything else in existence are His creation.

Masculine people, by their nature, tend to want to make everything into a journey with a goal.

Anytime my work can coax bodily fluids out of someone, I'm happy.

Given the fact that many thousands of female workers are active in history, it is vital for the trade unions to incorporate them into their movement.

Consciousness is the smallest player in the operations of the brain.

The Order of the Arrow is a thing of the outdoors rather than the indoors. It was born in an island wilderness. It needs the sun and rain, the woods and the plains, the waters and the starlit sky.

I had a rule that I had to go to bed before the sun came up. So I used to look up the sunrise times because I thought it would be bad karma to be going to bed as dawn was arriving.

The act of philosophizing involves the character of the philosopher.

I found that a lot of people ridiculed contemporary art. I decided I wanted to be involved in art everybody could understand.

The entire drug phenomenon of the 1960s happened without the concept of shamanism to help it along.