Growing is an important part of the business, but more important than that is to get better.

You have to be a little contrite to get redemption.

People are afraid because I'm candid. They're always worried I'm going to get into trouble.

There are a lot of people who get support from a thriving business.

I could design an $800 shoe line it's easy. You use the best materials and you can make beautiful shoes. It's easier than making great shoes for $90.

I'm a New York story.

I don't fret much about the natural life spans of shoe companies. If stores don't do the right things, they cease to exist, and that doesn't trouble me at all.

My strengths as a businessman lie in the design and sale of women's shoes, and I have never been comfortable with complicated or technical legal or business documents.

I am guilty of stupidity, arrogance, and greed.

I've been making shoes my whole life.

So much of design is context.

Tonight I have nothing to do but to dream and hope.

Meditation is an excellent habit and tool for transformation, however your ‘practice’ should eventually evolve into your natural primary state of being.

Remember, today’s truth could be tomorrow’s absurdity.

His hands fell to my hips, and his fingers dug through my rain-drenched clothes.

She was certain this trip would be a landslide of regret, anger and resentment, crumbling around a day of sadness.

And below the heimongmong, all along the ground, were weeds already spilling out over the edges, running wild in every direction.

In the story, which is only a few chapters long in Genesis, Noah never even speaks until after the flood - but when you have Russell Crowe, you're going to make him speak.

For me, bondage makes me feel powerless and annoyed. It's like, can you untie me?

The greatest enemy of justice is privilege.

I try to avoid typecasting by doing different roles.