I kiss the soil as if I placed a kiss on the hands of a mother, for the homeland is our earthly mother. I consider it my duty to be with my compatriots in this sublime and difficult moment.

I have my mantra about silhouette, proportion, and fit. I believe that when they are in harmony and balance, you'll look great in anything.

I had this wonderful career and thought I would retire as a teacher.

If you told me when I was a teen that I would end up being a teacher, I would have said you're out of your mind, because quite frankly I hated school.

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.

Life is not a solo act. It's a huge collaboration, and we all need to assemble around us the people who care about us and support us in times of strife.

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.

With fashion, you really need to understand the aspects of construction. Not just design on an iPad.

A famous love story is hard to maintain when you both live in the spotlight.

I am not a has-been. I am a will be.

I put my career in second place throughout both my marriages and it suffered. I don't regret it. You make choices. If you want a good marriage, you must pay attention to that. If you want to be independent, go ahead. You can't have it all.

I never believed marriage was a lasting institution. I thought that to be married for five years was to be married forever.

Men need to feel important. They feel better when they're with younger girls or unknown girls.

I've always felt that work - learning from people who know more than I know - is what keeps you going.

I'm a big fan of Daniel Day-Lewis. He's a marvelous actor. He stands alone, I think.

Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.

You learn to rise above a lot of bad things that happen in your life. And you have to keep going.

Our knowledge is a little island in a great ocean of nonknowledge.

The greatness of art is not to find what is common but what is unique.

Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression.

The waste basket is the writer's best friend.

Doubt is part of all religion. All the religious thinkers were doubters.

Life is God's novel. Let him write it.

I did not become a vegetarian for my health, I did it for the health of the chickens.

I am thankful, of course, for the prize and thankful to God for each story, each idea, each word, each day.

When you betray somebody else, you also betray yourself.

What nature delivers to us is never stale. Because what nature creates has eternity in it.

If you keep on saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.

If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.

Kindness, I've discovered, is everything in life.

Anniversaries are like birthdays: occasions to celebrate and to think ahead, usually among friends with whom one shares not only the past but also the future.

We have actually experienced in recent months a dramatic demonstration of an unprecedented intelligence failure, perhaps the most significant intelligence failure in the history of the United States.

In Iraq we must succeed. Failure is not an option.

Not to mention the fact that of course terrorists hate freedom. I think they do hate. But believe me, I don't think they sit there abstractly hating freedom.

Look at Islam in a rational manner and without demagoguery or emotion. It is the leading religion of the world with 1.5 billion followers.

Americans must place greater emphasis on the more subtle dimensions of national power, such as innovation, education, the balance of force and diplomacy, and the quality of political leadership.

We should be therefore supporting a larger Europe, and in so doing we should strive to expand the zone of peace and prosperity in the world which is the necessary foundation for a stable international system in which our leadership could be fruitfully exercised.

I think it is important to ask ourselves as citizens, not as Democrats attacking the administration, but as citizens, whether a world power can really provide global leadership on the basis of fear and anxiety?

The legitimacy of the leadership depends on what that country thinks of its leaders.

It is important to ask ourselves, as citizens, whether a world power can provide global leadership on the basis of fear and anxiety.

Sometimes in international politics, the better part of wisdom is to defer dangers rather than try to eliminate them altogether instantly.

Peace between Israel and Palestine would be a giant step toward greater regional stability, and it would finally let both Israelis and Palestinians benefit from the Middle East's growing wealth.

We cannot have that relationship if we only dictate or threaten and condemn those who disagree.

There may be circumstances in which damaging our relationship with countries over human rights is counterproductive and the benefits to human rights may be very small because of our limited capacity to enforce our stance. That was the dilemma the United States faced after Tiananmen Square.

I visited Libya in September 1996 for the 27th anniversary of the 'revolution' - a military coup that a 27-year-old Gadhafi led to topple the monarchy and since which he has ruled. Some were optimistic that Gadhafi's 'revolution' could herald a new Libya, but it didn't take long for his brutality to stamp out any such hopes.

I do not subscribe to a feminism that demands perfection or super heroic nobility of women. But I do insist that putting women at the service of patriarchy is no victory for us.

We left Egypt when I was seven, and we didn't return until I was 21. My teen years were divided between the United Kingdom and Saudi Arabia. Up until we left the U.K., it was like your regular teenage years. The one thing I remember is that I couldn't date. That was one thing my parents made very clear.

After 45 years of marriage, when I have an argument with my wife, if we don't agree, we do what she wants. But, when we agree, we do what I want!

I tell a student that the most important class you can take is technique. A great chef is first a great technician. 'If you are a jeweler, or a surgeon or a cook, you have to know the trade in your hand. You have to learn the process. You learn it through endless repetition until it belongs to you.

Great cooking favors the prepared hands.