“You cannot be who and what you are unless you have a lifestyle, both internally and externally, that is designed to support that definition of self.”

These are our neighbours, our co-workers, friends’ children, the problem is closer than you think, but so is the solution.

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit

At the end of the day, whether or not those people are comfortable with how you’re living your life doesn’t matter. What matters is whether you’re comfortable with it.

The truth doesn’t have versions, it just is.

This is no dress rehearsal.

Life’s managed, not cured.

I love life, but not everything in it. I love people, but not all of them. I love myself, but not everything about me.

Drama and crisis are currency to them because they love the power to make people react. They thrive on a good fight, a good scandal, a good drama.

Awareness without action is worthless.

You’re only lonely if you’re not there for you

If you do different, you will have different. If you begin to require more of yourself, that in and of itself is different.

You can’t put feathers on a dog and call it a chicken!

No matter how flat you make a pancake, it’s still got two sides.

Isn’t it amazing how easily you can cheat yourself out of the right choices by convincing yourself that you deserve the wrong ones? It’s highly illogical when you think about it. You deserve a better life, you deserve better health, and you deserve to lose weight.

I ask you to go back and read them over again, and this time answer them keeping in mind that you are writing your children’s future with your answers.

You have to name it to claim it

Everyone got to choose what they wanted to wear on stage, and by the third time going into wardrobe the stylists already knew what I’d love and what I would never throw on my body in a million years. They were fantastic, and it was so lovely working with them.

It’s for all the women who embrace my aesthetic, but can’t afford a Vera Wang dress. If women can get anything out of it – a little bit of me or a lot of me, that’s what’s important.

I was a total fashion insider who became an outsider when I did bridal.

With clothes, I like mixing what different designers do until it becomes a personal expression of how I’m feeling that day.

I love a black wedding dress.

I did not direct my life. I didn’t design it. I never made decisions. Things always came up and made them for me. That’s what life is.

I’m drawn to furniture design as complete architecture on a minor scale.

I was stigmatized by being a bridal designer for a long time. I am amazed I have been able to move beyond it. I had really all but given up trying, but I did it because it was my lifelong dream.