I used to get tons of letters that said, "I'll never get to wear you," or "I'll never get married in one of your dresses," or "I'll never have an evening gown like the one I saw on the red carpet." I thought that was sad, because you give your life to this and you end up reaching very few people. So that was a major goal for me - to be able to reach and encourage more women, to encourage them to express themselves and be what they want to be.

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Luck? I don’t know anything about luck. I’ve never banked on it and I’m afraid of people who do. Luck to me is something else hard work and realizing what is opportunity and what isn’t. — Lucille Ball

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sought to hear the voice of God and climbed the topmost steeple, but God declared: "Go down again - I dwell among the people. ― John Henry Newman

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People will kill you. Over time. They will shave out every last morsel of fun in you with little, harmless sounding phrases that people uses every day, like: 'Be realistic! ― Dylan Moran

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I'd rather have ten people that want God than 10,000 people who want to play church.

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The public is not to see where power lies, how it shapes policy, and for what ends. Rather, people are to hate and fear one another.

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Poets are people who can still see the world through the eyes of children.

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I prefer to be on the side of losers, the misunderstood or lonely people rather than writing about the strong and powerful. ― Núria Añó

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It's really a wonder that I haven't dropped all my ideals, because they seem so absurd and impossible to carry out. Yet I keep them, because in spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart. ― Anne Frank

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I always had the deepest affection for people who carried sublime tears in their silences.

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