"To be loved means to be recognized as existing."

-- Nhat Hanh

“I just take on what I can commit to completely at that point in time, and that way you'll be able to give your best.”
“We have to respond to budget concerns, we have to respond to functional and programmatic concerns of the building, and we have to respond to public engagement. That's what you sign up for when you decide to become an architect.”
“In your 20s, you learn. In your 30s, you earn.”
“The point of poetry is to be acutely discomforting, to prod and provoke, to poke us in the eye, to punch us in the nose, to knock us off our feet, to take our breath away.”

Source : Princeton University Library Chronicle, Spring 1998.
“I was not too stupid to learn, but too smart. Some instinct must have warned me that a woman accomplished in the domestic arts is frequently enslaved by them.”
“When you try on something, you have to ask yourself, 'How many ways could I wear this? Could I wear it to work? To dinner or drinks? Will it span the seasons' If you have to think too hard about those questions, then skip it.”

Source : "One On One with Michael Kors". Interview with Nina Garcia, www.marieclaire.com. August 19, 2009.
“I am still profoundly troubled by the war in Nicaragua. The United States launched a covert war against another nation in violation of international law, a war that was wrong and immoral.”
“In the 2004 presidential election, we saw a wonderful example of citizens making contributions. In fact, individual giving to both the Kerry and Bush campaigns was the highest in our nation's history.”

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