"Every success story has a parent who says, 'over my dead body.' Every success story has an old person who walks up to you and says, when you're acting the fool, 'you know I worry about you sometimes.'"

"In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure."

"You can turn painful situations around through laughter. If you can find humor in anything, even poverty, you can survive it."

"Any man today who returns from work, sinks into a chair, and calls for his pipe is a man with an appetite for danger."

"A bride at her second marriage does not wear a veil. She wants to see what she is getting."

"I love street style, seeing how girls wear pieces and how their pair accessories with their outfit. How they pair shoes with a bag and go to day to night and change things up."

"He most honors my style who learns under it to destroy the teacher."

"With all the hundreds of dresses and shoes I have, it would be an absolute crime if I don't have a little girl. I have a whole room at home filled with my stage wear."