“In the 60′s there was a look. In the 70′s there was a look, and in the 80′s. Now, it’s a free-for-all.”

You have to hold onto your fantasy.

Keep your sunny side up, keep yourself beautiful, and indulge yourself!

Just to see what a pink dress can mean to a woman, any woman, but a disabled woman, that’s extra special and thrilling because they shouldn’t be separated and their disabilities don’t have to separate them in anyway.

With over 3 million women battling breast cancer today, everywhere you turn there is a mother, daughter, sister, or friend who has been affected by breast cancer.

Hard times always lead to something great.

I hate to say it, but the truth is that the upscale line is where I get respect as a designer. The higher the price range, the higher the respect level from the industry, even though it’s much easier to make a great $500 dress than a great $100 dress.

It’s just been so heartwarming to see my clothes on people in wheelchairs and people needing physical support.

If a girl comes to me first for a prom or a bar mitzvah and she likes the way she looks and her boyfriend likes the way she looks, she’ll come back.

When you’re designing clothing, you really only have one point of focus, and that’s the body. But home is fabrics and furniture and floors and natural light. If fashion is a planet, home is more like a universe.

I was always dancing and acrobatics was my specialty.

At any appearance, I make sure that before the person takes a pic and runs away, that I make contact. All I can do is give that little bit of me, the kickback is miraculous.

If it hadn’t been for the rise of the working woman’s wardrobe, I never would have found the time to sneak a kid in.

I was a cheerleader for nine years.

Real success is being totally indulgent about your own trip. You put your blinders on about the garbage and go full speed ahead.

My customer isn’t wrapped up in labels and money.

I never keep anything beautiful in the closet.

Simplicity in character, in manners, in style; in all things the supreme excellence is simplicity.

I’m an old man, and all my life I’ve said that Notre Dame should remain independent because it’s a national school.

If the whole of mankind is to be united into one brotherhood, all obstacles must be removed so that men, all over the surface of the globe, should be as children playing in a garden.

All I can do is try to create my own brand and have people appreciate me for that.

You can control your own destiny a little bit better in college. It’s hard to control all the variables, especially with the salary cap and things like that, in pro football.

We all wanted to be like him.

All I know is that, thanks to a sort of habit which has always been ingrained in me, I have never, at any moment of my life, experienced the least difficulty in addressing myself to God as to a supreme Someone.

In Germany, they all thought I was a bit mental, very emotional.