Always aspire to become the next you, not someone else

A beautiful woman is a beautiful woman, but a beautiful woman with a brain is an absolutely lethal combination.

Nails are the period at the end of the sentence. They complete the look

I make 98% of my collection in New York City and am generating jobs, so fashion isn't just frivolous for me. I understand levity about it. I also understand the depth of it.

I'm not a believer of luck. I think opportunity and hard work becomes luck.

I'm fascinated by furniture design and interiors, and I want to try designing all that stuff.

There's such a feeling of satisfaction when something you imagined turned into something real.

A modern Woman is not necessarily...s omeone who just buys expensive stuff... ...a modern Woman is someone who buys intelligently.

I mean, I can cook, but I'd get very nervous having my food being judged by dinner guests.

There is one universal truth: All women, all over the world, want to look beautiful. That is always the theme of my designs.

I love draping; it's less about proportion than fit and the fabric. It's very specialized and I think when women see the construction, they respond to it immediately.

A good book should leave you....slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading it.

They use fear to control us, they control us to make us afraid. One more reason to be brave.

I needed to stop hiding: I was raped. It was time to honestly be exactly who I was. I saw—the shame wasn't mine, it was his, and I could stop misrepresenting myself, and I could accept myself.

Never worry about the size of your Christmas tree. In the eyes of children, they are all 30 feet tall

... inherited collective mind-patterns ... have kept humans in bondage to suffering for eons.

That's how we build the economy of the future. An economy with more jobs and less debt, we root it in fairness. We grow it with opportunity. And we build it together.

I just want to be known for things other than my sexuality.

We are selfish when we are exclusively or predominantly concerned with the good for ourselves. We are altruistic when we are exclusively or predominantly concerned with the good of others.

He who has one enemy shall meet him everywhere.

Everybody is looking for an election where they can do something and participate.