"You can call it the 'Perfect Moment' when the universe aligns and the music in your head actually matches the music outside and all is well."

“[O]ne might ask why, in a galaxy of a few hundred billion stars, the aliens are so intent on coming to Earth at all. It would be as if every vertebrate in North America somehow felt drawn to a particular house in Peoria, Illinois. Are we really that interesting?”

“We humans have millions of years of evolutionary baggage that makes us regard competition in a deadly light.”

“It is indeed a surprising and fortunate fact that nature can be expressed by relatively low-order mathematical functions.”

“I hate to say it, but the truth is that the upscale line is where I get respect as a designer. The higher the price range, the higher the respect level from the industry, even though it's much easier to make a great $500 dress than a great $100 dress.”

“Pere Noel. Babbo Natale. Pelznickel. Topo Gigio”

“People who are interested in doing something will do it when it's convenient; people who are committed will do it no matter what.”

“Optimism can be more powerful than a battery of artillery or squadron of tanks. It can be contagious and it's necessary to being a leader.”

“Now what is food for the inner man? Not prayer, but the Word of God; and here again, not the simple reading of the Word of God, so that it only passes through our minds, just as water passes through a pipe, but considering what we read, pondering it over and applying it to our hearts.”