I have a 6-year-old niece who doesn't look like the majority of girls on the covers of magazines. I hope that by the time she's 16, the world will have changed.

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.

Progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things.

It is impossible to have a lively hope in another life, and yet be deeply immersed in the enjoyments of this.

I would never rob your cradles to feed the dogs of war

We are of course a nation of differences. Those differences don't make us weak. They're the source of our strength.

Childhood often holds a truth with its feeble finger, which the grasp of manhood cannot retain,--which it is the pride of utmost age to recover.

Know what you want to emphasize, then do it daily.

I always believed that I’d return to Cleveland and finish my career there.

Fun from games arises out of mastery. It arises out of comprehension. It is the act of solving puzzles that makes games fun. In other words, with games, learning is the drug.

I want people to consider the idea that the only way of moving forward with their lives is to revisit and confront their issues and their pasts.

When I was younger, yes, there was a part of me - and I wrote about that bit in Among the White Moon Faces - that wanted to be a boy. I wanted to be accepted by my brothers and to be their peers.