I wouldn’t say that anyone in fashion is on my side. I don’t think there’s anyone on my side.

If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn’t thinking.

For me, money is not my definition of success. Inspiring people is a definition of success.

The man with a toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound. The poverty-stricken man makes the same mistake about the rich man.

Family quarrels are bitter things. They don’t go according to any rules. They’re not like aches or wounds, they’re more like splits in the skin that won’t heal because there’s not enough material.

It’s possible – you can never know – that the universe exists only for me. If so, it’s sure going well for me, I must admit.

I have learned that only two things are necessary to keep one’s wife happy. First, let her think she’s having her own way. And second, let her have it.

The answer to the problem of inequality is for the people who are fortunate enough to either have been gifted or deserved more to do everything they can to make the communities around them as strong as they possibly can.

When you are joyous, look deep into your heart and you shall find it is only that which has given you sorrow that is giving you joy. When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.

If you’re talking to a man who wouldn’t fight with you under any circumstances whatsoever, then you’re talking to someone for whom you have absolutely no respect.

As a former resident with strong personal and ministry ties to the North Star State, I pray that the good people of Minnesota will show their support for God’s definition of marriage, between a man and a woman.

Your teammates give you the confidence. They give me the confidence all year, all postseason.

Little minds are interested in the extraordinary; great minds in the commonplace.

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.

When you love someone, the best thing you can offer is your presence. How can you love if you are not there?

What sweetness is left in life, if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun. A true friend is more to be esteemed than kinsfolk.

I’ve learned that usually, the less I know about other people, the better off I am.

Is everything funny? For me, yes. There’s a positive to every negative. Even my divorce? For me, yes. If you go back and look at it, why it happened or how it happened, there’s something in there that’ll make you laugh.

When you’re born you get a ticket to the freak show. When you’re born in America, you get a front row seat.

Without deep reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people.

I wouldn’t wear tiny amounts of clothing in my real life so I don’t think it’s necessary to wear that stuff in photo-shoots.

In terms of doing work and in terms of learning and evolving as a person, you just grow more when you get more people’s perspectives… I really try and live the mission of the company and… keep everything else in my life extremely simple.

I never gave anybody hell! I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.

Our life is what our thoughts make it.

Old men are dangerous: it doesn’t matter to them what is going to happen to the world.

History is more or less bunk.

An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.

It is only when the rich are sick that they fully feel the impotence of wealth.

There are two kinds of people in this world. ‚I‘ people and ‚we‘ people. I’ve always tried to be a ‚we‘ person.

OVOXO will always be there.

Changing is not just changing the things outside of us. First of all we need the right view that transcends all notions including of being and non-being, creator and creature, mind and spirit. That kind of insight is crucial for transformation and healing.

Be polite to all, but intimate with few.

The Revlon Run/Walk effort to focus on women’s cancer has my wholehearted support and gratitude.

When you have nobody you can make a cup of tea for, when nobody needs you, that’s when I think life is over.

You gotta understand: I believe a woman should praise the man, the king. If you holding it down for your woman, I feel like the woman should praise. And the man should praise the queen.

I know when I grew up, it was, if it was daylight outside, get outside. Well, now, with the technological age of computers and everything, everyone’s inside virtually going everywhere they want to go, virtually having relationships, virtually traveling across the neighborhood, virtually going to that island.

Never marry someone in hope that they’ll change later.

It is better to have your head in the clouds, and know where you are… than to breathe the clearer atmosphere below them, and think that you are in paradise.

The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.

No finite point has meaning without an infinite reference point.

The world is seldom what it seems; to man, who dimly sees, realities appear as dreams, and dreams realities.

I mean, I feel like you get more bees with honey. But that doesn’t mean I don’t get frustrated in my life.

To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn’t everything.

I’m just a friendly person; that runs in my family.

Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can’t sleep with the window shut, and a woman who can’t sleep with the window open.

Counsel with your parents is a privilege at any age.

Only two things are necessary to keep one’s wife happy. One is to let her think she is having her own way, and the other is to let her have it.

Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

You bring children into the world. You love them with heart and soul.

There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it and no happiness in any place except what you bring to it yourself.

I tried being reasonable, I didn’t like it.

From my perspective, I absolutely believe in a greater spiritual power, far greater than I am, from which I have derived strength in moments of sadness or fear. That’s what I believe, and it was very, very strong in the forest.

I very rarely watch my own fashion shows, but the makeup for my Fall 2011 show was just brilliant.

I love making new friends and I respect people for a lot of different reasons.

The Tao teaches us not to intervene and interfere. The things we love we have to learn to leave alone. And the people we love we have to learn to let them be.

I saw a woman wearing a sweatshirt with Guess on it. I said, Thyroid problem?

Most of the people that I deal with are human. So I’ve had a lot of experience with that.

My parents are my backbone. Still are. They’re the only group that will support you if you score zero or you score 40.

When younger writers and poets, musicians and painters are weakened by a stemming of funds, they come to me saddened, not as full of dreams and excitement and ideas. I am then weakened and diminished, and made less rich.

I think women love very hard. We love men. We just love with everything we have. And sometimes, I don’t know that that love is met with the type of dignity that we wish it would be met with.

People like music when they’re in love, but they don’t need it as much. You need music when you’re missing someone or you’re pining for someone or you’re forgetting someone or you’re trying to process what just happened.