I’m 5’11, so when I wear heels, it’s definitely a really good view that I have. I’m, like, 6’2 when I wear heels, so I tend to wear cowboy boots a lot.

I confused things with their names: that is belief.

Man only likes to count his troubles, but he does not count his joys.

One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed.

I’ve got a feeling that music might not be the most interesting place to be in the world of things.

If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.

You can’t have everything. Where would you put it?

Getting older is no problem. You just have to live long enough.

No such thing as a man willing to be honest – that would be like a blind man willing to see.

The finest clothing made is a person’s own skin, but, of course, society demands something more than this.

Great minds are related to the brief span of time during which they live as great buildings are to a little square in which they stand: you cannot see them in all their magnitude because you are standing too close to them.

When I was 11, the whole world was closed to me. I just felt I was on the outside of the world.

God is a thought who makes crooked all that is straight.

I’m a really artistic person, and so, with the live stuff, there’s a lot that I think is really cool. Beyonce and Rihanna have all these dancers. So with the live costumes and video costumes, I’d really like to have my vision. The way that I want people to dress is very specific. I love fashion.

If you leave the smallest corner of your head vacant for a moment, other people’s opinions will rush in from all quarters.

Fashion is life-enhancing, and I think it’s a lovely, generous thing to do for other people.

When I was fourteen and first started going out, I always wanted to be the opposite of everyone else. So I would go to the club in a polo T-shirt and pants and sneakers and a hat on backward, just so I would not be dressed like other girls.

In the final analysis, the questions of why bad things happen to good people transmutes itself into some very different questions, no longer asking why something happened, but asking how we will respond, what we intend to do now that it happened.

It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I put up my thumb and shut one eye, and my thumb blotted out the planet Earth. I didn’t feel like a giant. I felt very, very small.

There are two ways to live: you can live as if nothing is a miracle; you can live as if everything is a miracle.

The first man gets the oyster, the second man gets the shell.

If you wear clothes that don’t suit you, you’re a fashion victim. You have to wear clothes that make you look better.

The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages.

Fashion is only the attempt to realize art in living forms and social intercourse.

The frontier between hell and heaven is only the difference between two ways of looking at things.

There are definitely elements of experience and stuff that someone who’s my age wouldn’t have. But there are also things that I can do that other people wouldn’t necessarily be able to.

Think big thoughts but relish small pleasures.

The eye sees what it brings the power to see.

Isn’t it funny how babies laugh a lot? I read a toddler, a young child laughs 300 times a day. The average adult laughs, like, four times a day. God put it in them. He put the laugh in us, but I think sometimes we let life get us down, you know, have bad breaks, and we lose our breaks.

On a spiritual level, it’s as though with my sighted eye I see what’s before me, and with my unsighted eye I see what’s hidden. It’s illuminated life more than darkened it.

You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view.

Life’s a bit like mountaineering – never look down.

My style has always been my own, just like my flow and style.

Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.

No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it’s not the same river and he’s not the same man.

I always loved advertising. If I hadn’t been in fashion, I’d have been in advertising.

I never admire another’s fortune so much that I became dissatisfied with my own.

Life is divided into the horrible and the miserable.

Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

I’ve never considered musical equipment very sacred.

I conceive that the great part of the miseries of mankind are brought upon them by false estimates they have made of the value of things.

Every day that is born into the world comes like a burst of music and rings the whole day through, and you make of it a dance, a dirge, or a life march, as you will.

The world is before you and you need not take it or leave it as it was when you came in.

In this world, emotion has become suspect – the accepted style is smooth, antiseptic and passionless.

Whenever a fellow tells me he’s bipartisan, I know he’s going to vote against me.

Happiness is within the reach of everyone, rich or poor. Yet comparatively few people are happy. I believe the reason for this is that the majority don’t recognize happiness even when it is within their grasp.

It’s presumptuous to say you know how somebody feels.

The life which men praise and regard as successful is but one kind. Why should we exaggerate any one kind at the expense of the others?

Maybe this world is another planet’s hell.

While on top of Everest, I looked across the valley towards the great peak Makalu and mentally worked out a route about how it could be climbed. It showed me that even though I was standing on top of the world, it wasn’t the end of everything. I was still looking beyond to other interesting challenges.

It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors.

I put up my thumb and it blotted out the planet Earth.

This soul, or life within us, by no means agrees with the life outside us. If one has the courage to ask her what she thinks, she is always saying the very opposite to what other people say.

If you would judge, understand.

The child inside of you knows how to take things as they come, how to deal most effectively and happily with everything and everyone it encounters on this planet. If you can recapture that childlike essence of your being, you can stay ‚forever young at heart.‘

There are folks who now know black families – like the Johnsons on ‚Black-ish‘ or the folks on ‚Modern Family.‘ They become part of who you are. You share their pains. You understand their fears. They make you laugh, and they change how you see the world.

Age doesn’t bother me. So many of my heroes were older guys. It’s the lack of years left that weighs far heavier on me than the age that I am.

A lot of people have said I’d have probably done better in my career if I hadn’t looked so cheap and gaudy. But I dress to be comfortable for me, and you shouldn’t be blamed because you want to look pretty.

Those who weep for the happy periods which they encounter in history acknowledge what they want; not the alleviation but the silencing of misery.

Everyone looks at your watch and it represents who you are, your values and your personal style.

A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.