As a young girl, I was very proud at overcoming a reading handicap whilst other girls of my age read abundantly.

Simplicity is the keynote of all true elegance.

Don't spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door.

Success is most often achieved by those who don't know that failure is inevitable.

In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different.

A girl should be two things: classy and fabulous.

The best accessory for a woman - handsome man!

Elegance is when the inside is as beautiful as the outside.

Beauty begins the moment you decide to be yourself.

It's not the appearance, it's the essence. It's not the money, it's the education. It's not the clothes, it's the class.

The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.

You want to be competent? she thought. You want to learn to be in control of what goes on around you, rather than just being pushed around? Then you’ll have to learn to deal with failure.

Nicola would have to speak up, Jacob would have to shut up, and he would have to man up.

There is only one real deprivation... and that is not to be able to give one's gifts to those one loves most.

Living is risking.

'Tis not enough your counsel still be true; Blunt truths more mischief than nice falsehoods do.

The single largest pool of untapped resource in this world is human good intentions that never translate into action.

It is difficult to judge, when both sides are employing weapons of violence, which side 'deserves' to succeed.

I am interested in ideas, not merely in visual products.

The most important thing I do is I'm a dad.

The fact that the market is not doing what we wish it would do is no reason to automatically assume that the government would do better.