I can count on one hand the number of people who wrote me a thank you letter after having an interview, and I gave almost all of them a job.

A good school teaches you resilience - that ability to bounce back.

No matter how irrelevant social class now is, even the most eager egalitarian must be quietly proud that the posh English rose is still an industry standard for peerlessly sophisticated beauty.

The way you personally communicate is 90 per cent of how you will be evaluated by any future employer.

My favourite thing in my wardrobe is my jewelry.

Polo drifts gently in and out of fashion.

If you develop just one muscle, one skill, make it the ability to focus and just get on with it. It will not only make you desirably employable, but it will make you happy.

It doesn't matter how many A-levels you have, what kind of a degree you have, if you have good manners people will like you.

The Queen's wedding dress in 1947, there was some embroidery on the train which was definitely there to illustrate new dawn/post-war optimism, that sort of thing.

Smartass Disciple: Where were all things before the time began?Master of Stupidity: What was the time before all things created?

..The stuff you learn beforehand will never be one-tenth as useful as the stuff you learn the hard way, on the job.

He would write and write. He would make wonderful things happen. Some of it would be true. All of it would be true. Most of it would be true.

Humility is to make a right estimate of one's self.

I involve myself in an organisation called Tear Fund.

My prayer today is that God would make me an extraordinary Christian.

The only object of liberty is life.

The book designer strives for perfection; yet every perfect thing lives somewhere in the neighborhood of dullness and is frequently mistaken for it by the insensitive.

I have instinctually thought I could do things in my life, and I followed that up by sometimes putting everything I have at risk - my money, my house - to make a movie.

As the evening beckons with the promise of tomorrow... may your gratitude rise up and with strength answer, "yes."