“You can HAVE, DO or BE, anything you want! It’s a choice and it’s YOUR CHOICE.”

There is always an emotional element to anything that you make.

When I went to see Mrs. Clinton and we talk about the inaugural dress I ask her what would you like to achieve with this particular dress? And she said to me what I would like is – that when I walk into the room and people will look at me and say wow you look great.

Love. Be curious. Always try to do your best.

He is racist, he’s homophobic, he’s xenophobic and he’s a sexist. He’s the perfect Republican candidate. [California Democratic Party chairman about Pat Buchanan.]

I’m a misunderstood genius.” “What’s misunderstood?” “Nobody thinks I’m a genius.

Excess is not really something I consider a bad thing; especially when you are talking about living.

The flag represents all the values and the liberties Americans have and enjoy everyday.

War subjects itself to transportation in a way that we find acceptable.

When I leave a room, it’s gonna be footprints of funk wherever I stepped, because I’m a soul-funk crusader.

A strong man can handle a strong woman. A weak man will say she has an attitude problem

As far as preference between fall and spring collections, I have none that I prefer to design. With fall you have a lot more items, but of course I am from the Dominican Republic, so I love the warm weather.

If you want to establish an international presence you can’t do so from New York. You need the consecration of Paris.

When some unworthy thought pushes into your mind, replace it with your delete key. Worthy music is powerful and can help you control your thoughts.

I would like better to be known as the Godfather of Fashion, with all the implications that that word has.

Women think black is the most flattering color, but they’re wrong. Pink adds a cosmetic-like radiance and warmth. Black drains the skin of color; pink delights the eye.

When I started Go Daddy, I tried many things – like building networks and selling education – and none of it panned out. I lost millions of dollars the first couple of years. I made a lot of wrong turns, but that’s the process of being successful in business.

If you’re doing an indie and you have time, sometimes you can do take after take after take, but if you’re working in television on that filming schedule,

If there is no freedom of expression, then the beauty of life is lost. Participation in a society is not an artistic choice, it’s a human need.

It is because of our unassailable enthusiasm, our profound reverence for education, that we habitually demand of it the impossible. The teacher is expected to perform a choice and varied series of miracles.

The decision to feed the world is the real decision. No revolution has chosen it. For that choice requires that women shall be free.

I have a few minor rules for myself but I break them all the time. For example, when translating from Romance languages to English, there is often a choice between a Latinate cognate and a Germanic equivalent.

I called it a baptism in flaming ink that forced me to shed my shyness about recognizing myself

As a poet and to accept the fact that life had never given me any choice in the matter. And then I had to discover exactly what that meant.

One has only the choice between God and idolatry. There is no other possibility. For the faculty of worship is in us, and it is either directed somewhere into this world, or into another.