"I have my flaws and my issues, past and present and who knows what will happen in the future. I want people to know I'm vulnerable too and each one of us is."

"I've never mentioned this, but when I was at Parsons teaching, the other design disciplines, they don't like fashion design. They see it as very nineteenth-century."

"I don't know why I've always been so captivated by architecture."

"Take the high road. No matter how much strife, and consternation, frustration and anger you might be confronted with - don't go to that level."

"I went to Marion College for writing and I was kicked out of the writing school. I was asked to leave the writing program because I was corrupting the other students."

"I was, if you like, a successful schoolboy in that I had a degree of talent in all the required things that make you a success at school."

"If you take any world problem, any issue on the planet, the solution to that problem certainly includes education. In education, the roadblock is the laptop."

"When you are offended at any man's fault, turn to yourself and study your own failings. Then you will forget your anger."