A tip: if you're invited to your friend's country club to go the lost and found bin and pretend that you left something there. Next thing you know, you have a fabulous sweater.

Preppy clothes are built to last, since they certainly won't go out of style.

Wool, cotton, and the odd bits of silk and cashmere are the only acceptable materials for Prep clothes. They look better. They require professional maintenance. They are more expensive.

You can't regret what you can't remember.

Cynicism is more than a pose; it's also a handy time saver. By deflating your companion's enthusiasm, you can cut conversations in half.

In a true democracy everyone can be upper class and live in Connecticut.

Sarcasm mascarades as the Preppy's sense of humor.

Like everything else, Preppiness begins in the home.

It is the inalienable right of every man, woman, and child to wear khaki.

The University of Miami is not a campus with visible school spirit, just visible tan lines.

If you tell a friend a secret, she will keep the secret by telling only one other person.

If you go to the workplace thinking that you are a mere employee, you can only be an employee. If you go with an Entrepreneur consciousness, you can definitely become an Entrepreneur

Understanding who you are is critical for your career advancement. Self-awareness helps you get ahead.

In the South of England northerners were regarded then as uncouth, brutish, undisciplined savages ...

The biggest lesson I've learned by living abroad for the last four years is the importance of communication.

The secret is to work less as individuals and more as a team. As a coach, I play not my eleven best, but my best eleven.

I was going to middle school in Berkley, and I did not fit in at all. Like a lot of kids, I found theater to be a good place for me.

I don't really know why I'm such an emotional person, that's just how I was born. It's a problem. It's not easy to be married to me.

Music isn't about music, it's about life.

I live in L.A. because my kids do. Home is where my kids are for me.

What is she to me? Except a menace — a danger you’ve chosen to inflict on all of us.