I can't cook. I don't have the right brain for it, somehow. I can't walk into a room and tidy it up. I get distracted. I pick up one thing and I start looking at it. And my cooking is truly heinous.

Some things are best left a blur. Births and Visa Bills.

When I shop, the world gets better, and the world is better, but then it's not, and I need to do it again. (Confessions of a Shopaholic-the movie)

I chose to publish the first 'Shopaholic' book under a pseudonym because I wanted it to be judged on its own merits.

There's no luck in business. There's only drive, determination, and more drive.

Life is like an escalator. You see, it carries you on regardless. And you might as well enjoy the view and seize every opportunity while you're passing. Otherwise, it'll be too late.

I had a craving for pineapple and a pink cardigan" - Becky Bloomwood Shopaholic and Baby

Our eyes met in the math class. How were we to know that trigonometry would lead to matrimony?

This is what happens. You tell your friends your most personal secrets, and they use them against you.

I love new clothes. If everyone could just wear new clothes everyday, I reckon depression wouldn’t exist anymore.

Wow. I've never been a VIP before. I've never even been a IP.

The positive vibrations of unregulated joy, peace, happiness and tranquility is freedom.

It's time for you to start creating some extraordinary things in your life, because there is absolutely nothing ordinary about your mind.

How could she ever know that someone would pick her story up and carry it with him everywhere?

Few people are lacking in capacity, but they fail because they are lacking in application.

I've done what I could as a painter and that seems to me to be sufficient. I don't want to be compared to the great masters of the past, and my painting is open to criticism; that's enough.

The Bible is to me the most precious thing in the world, because it tells me his story; and what good men thought about him who knew him and accepted him.

Without land, how can you have development of roads, highways, townships, etc?

. . . the companions of our childhood always possess a certain power over our minds which hardly any later friend can obtain.

You have to try to reply to criticism with your intellect, not your ego.

To people outside, they think, Gee, that's great. You get to go here and there. The other side of that is our expression, This is location, not vacation