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.

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.

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

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.

I am guilty of stupidity, arrogance, and greed.

I've been making shoes my whole life.

So much of design is context.

A change of attitude changes everything.A bad attitude never leads to a good life.

In the end, nothing else matters except the love we have shared.

The real pleasure,the real peace, the real enlightenment is to give. The more you give the more you get. If you give 10, you get 100.

The desert surrounds your every step and you walk forever a thirsty man.

Winning is like deodorant - it comes up and a lot of things don't stink.

What I like in pictures whether by an old director or a young director is when I have the feeling he or she is really using the capacity of film.

The only thing truly within our power, may be whether or not we will behave in each moment with arrogance or reverence.

I'm not from a theatrical background where people do like to work it out on some stage space.

Dear reader, traditional human power structures and their reign of darkness are about to be rendered obsolete.

I've been involved in burlesque for a really long time and I've always been really interested in burlesque, and I was writing musicals for different studios.