My mom would put me in these preppy little suits and slick my hair to the side. I have these baby pictures of me where I'm this little preppy kid with a sweater tied around my neck.

Anyone can get dressed up and glamorous, but it is how people dress in their days off that are the most intriguing.

Take people's advice and guidance in the beginning, but always follow your instincts first

No one is going to understand your brand better than you.

Go with your instinct and your gut. It sounds cliché, but never give up and just keep on. If you really believe in it, you have to just dive in and go for it.

I tend to like the most basic pieces with the perfect fit and fabric, like a simple tank.

I really learn from something that really inspires me and it becomes something that I remember.

I always say that I'm really inspired by mistakes and things that kind of go wrong.

There's a tendency to think that young designers only do fantasy fashion, but I'm more interested in making clothes that women can afford.

The things that you can't really foresee and that kind of surprise you, and a lot of times they are bad, but other times, they bring something different and new to the table.

Any style that Nike makes in all black, shoe, sweatshirt, onesie, doesn't matter, I pretty much need to have.

Marriage is a sacred-commitment.

One has to manage alone as best one can. (Karin Bergman)

I wish you couldn't figure me out, but you'd always want to know what I was about

In that moment her heart fell out of her chest. Like the glass filled vase he had brought to her, it dropped. It was shattered into a million small pieces.

True violence, not the kind you usually see in television or movies, touches something very deep and primal in people.

If you let a bully intimidate you, he's going to do it again. You've got to stand up to these strong-arm tactics.

We like it to be realistic but not real, but I wear something I call the 'vag pad,' it's kind of a little triangular panty liner that you stick to you.

The whole value of history, of biography, is to increase my self-trust, by demonstrating what man can be and do.

Each step, each strain of the eye Opens out a new horizon; And every day throws in our way Something new, to grow more wise on.

When you can hear a violinist, that is better than you, then you learn from him, because if you play with somebody who is worse than you, then you go down.