Transcending mind-made limitations doesn't mean you stop being yourself. On the contrary, you become more yourself than ever before.

Quality, service, cleanliness, and value.

You can't operate a company by fear, because the way to eliminate fear is to avoid criticism. And the way to avoid criticism is to do nothing.

The best songs are stories, and the best singers storytellers. Great singers can make you care about what they're feeling. You have a sense of knowing them.

The city's contradictions and frailties drive me to the church. The church, in turn, binds my wounds and soothes my troubled heart, and sends me right back out into the city again.

It's still relatively rare to have an epidemiologist at a zoo.

Without love, without humor, yoga is just a lot of hard work.

Death wears a big hat.

Most of all, I remember her laughing. It filled my ears. Her smile, her sparkling eyes, and her infectious laughter, along with the vistas, were limitless and unending and powerful.

You need to decide to stop letting their crazy box you in.

Language that tells us, through a more or less emotional reaction, something that can not be said.

That's one of the great advantages of age. You can say, I don't want to, I don't care, you can throw temper tantrums, and nobody minds.

You're only as good as your last collection, which is an enormous pressure.

I'm inspired by different cultures around the world and love to incorporate these facets into my collection.

The only way to get money out of politics is to get politics out of money-making.

I remember interviewing someone I actually felt bad for, and therefore didn't want to take an ironic stance against him. It actually turned out to be a really funny piece.

Animals are something invented by plants to move seeds around. An extremely yang solution to a peculiar problem which they faced.