Top 140 Quotes & Sayings by Donna Karan

Design is a constant challenge to balance comfort with luxe, the practical with the desirable.

I design from instinct. It's the only way I know how to live. What feels good. What feels right. What is needed. Give me a problem and I will approach it creatively, from my gut.

Everything comes out of what works for me.

Evening is a time of real experimentation. You never want to look the same way.

I'm really quite simple.

I'm a nature bug.

When I started Donna Karan, people weren't really accepting the idea of the working woman.

I truly believe that philanthropy and commerce can work together.

If it's a regular day, I won't wear any makeup, just leave my hair down and head out to the car.

I always thought I should have been a better mother.

Delete the negative; accentuate the positive!

My mother was a working woman, and I was alone a lot. So I wanted to be a stay-at-home mom.

Women should always take care of themselves first. It makes you more equipped to take care of others.

Everything in life... has to have balance.

I've always been about the power of a woman - accentuating the positive, deleting the negative, whether you're talking her body, her voice or her leadership.

I believe in comfort. If you don't feel comfortable in your clothes, it's hard to think of anything else.

Basically, I was a hippie and still am a flower child.

Originally, back in 1992, DKNY started because I couldn't find a pair of jeans. I also wanted to dress my teenage daughter Gabby. So it was the perfect street wardrobe: jeans, anoraks, jumpsuits, boyfriend jackets, sweaters, skirts and dresses. Then DKNY grew into an entire lifestyle concept, including tailored clothes you wear to work.

Business, numbers, negotiations, all that stuff I wouldn't go near.

I love building spaces: architecture, furniture, all of it, probably more than fashion. The development procedure is more tactile. It's about space and form and it's something you can share with other people.

If I weren't doing what I'm doing today... I'd be traveling around the world on the back of a motorcycle.

It's really easy to get colors right. It's really hard to get black - and neutrals - right. Black is certainly a color but it's also an illusion.

When I first started designing, all women were dressed like men, and I said, 'Hey, guys, let's be women, put the two together - it's not either/or. Let's celebrate our bodies. Our bodies are different.'

Everything I do is a matter of heart, body and soul.

I love skiing, I love the sun, I love my children, I love my grandchildren, I love my family and friends... and whatever I haven't done.

Design and style should work toward making you look good and feel good without a lot of effort so you can get on with the things that matter.

Age and size are only numbers. It's the attitude you bring to clothes that make the difference.

I think I was a nomad in another life.

I give Reiki, which is energy, but I don't tell too many people that.

I always thought what you wore underneath was as important as what you wear on top.

I wouldn't be who I am without my husband, who handled the business end of Donna Karan so I could be creative.

I really feel that we need to scale back and get to what is important on so many levels.

We've come a long way. Power dressing now is designed to let the woman inside us come through.

It used to be only yoga, but now I do Pilates as well; I feel like I need the balance.

I feel very strongly about dresses on every level - a dress feels like underpinning.

You don't have that much choice in your life, which is one of the big lessons I've learned. I was going to be a designer whether I wanted to be a designer or not.

Scheduling me is not easy, as most people know, because once I start, I don't stop.

To me, design and style should work toward making you look good and feel good without a lot of effort - so you can get on with the things that matter.

I live for what I haven't done.

I'd rather promote New York than anything else in this world because New York to me means the world.

I'm truly, truly boring! I don't change. If people know me, I have not changed.

My daughter Gabby very kindly once said that she thinks I was a better mother because I was doing a job I loved. I now think guilt is a universal part of being a mother. I used to think it was Jewish-mother guilt but now I think it is working-mother guilt.

I start my day with a mind, body, soul practice - yoga, Pilates or meditation.

Just take a breath and see what happens.

I believe in the power of women. As nurturers, we have a unique ability to care and share and make the world a better place. Women Who Inspire are women who are making a difference.

Today, fashion is really about sensuality-how a woman feels on the inside. In the '80s women used suits with exaggerated shoulders and waists to make a strong impression. Women are now more comfortable with themselves and their bodies-they no longer feel the need to hide behind their clothes.

I think I was always inspired by seeing a problem, and finding a solution.

Fragrance is the first layer of dressing, a woman's invisible body suit.

With all the yoga and meditation that I do, when the chaos happens it happens. But I'm not as affected as a lot of people - I don't react as much. I just let things drip off my back a little bit.

I couldn't live without something that touches my heart. No one should.

The most important thing any woman can do is promote her inner well-being

Its all about finding the calm in the chaos.

Its really easy to get colors right. Its really hard to get black - and neutrals - right. Black is certainly a color but its also an illusion.

Accent your positive and delete your negative.

Personal Style comes from within. It's when the woman, her individuality and spirit come through. She uses clothes to express who she is and how she feels

I celebrate my people a lot and that's why people stay with me as long as they do.

Every problem has a creative solution.

Where there is creativity, there is hope.

Every woman has the power to seduce the world with her uniqueness, passion and creativity.

My favorite journey is anywhere I haven't been