I lead a very busy life and don't have a lot of time, so my skincare needs to be easy and portable.

How awful to be a perfect beauty! How confusing! God. Can you imagine?

Fear has been my biggest friend. Fear of the unknown. Whenever I've been afraid, I've been very self-protective.

I am concerned about ageism and the loss of beauty - the perception that as you grow older, you 'lose your looks,' which I think is diabolical.

I have previously been a very enthusiastic consumer, and I didn't think about the origins of garments enough.

I take my mentoring responsibilities very seriously.

I would say I live half in New York and half in Claridge's. How decadent! How hysterical!

Rejection is, of course, part of any successful model's career, as ironic as that sounds. It's how you pick yourself up and get on with the job.

I am selective. If I do splash out, it's an investment, and I wear things for years.

Growing up, I had an insane crush on Neil Tennant of the Pet Shop Boys.

I have a regular cleansing, toning and moisturising routine.

Letting go is the lesson. Letting go is always the lesson. Have you ever noticed how much of our agony is all tied up with craving and loss?

Don't decide yet, " Hephaestus advised. "Wait until daybreak. Daybreak is a good time for decisions.

How can the nation be mightier, without unity of its citizens?

I'm a realist. Where I come from, 'phenomenons' don't exist. I'm from a land where people make mistakes and try again, harder, faster; where negativity is not an option.

The life you have led doesn't need to be the only life you have.

The wise determine from the gravity of the case; the irritable, from sensibility to oppression; the high minded, from disdain and indignation at abusive power in unworthy hands.

One does every day and without a second thought, what at another time would be the event of a year, perhaps of a life.

I believe we will start believing in God as we get closer to death.

Many journalists are influenced by a myopic multiculturalism that is suspicious of anything Western, while giving the benefit of the doubt to non-Western societies.

I've never met an American who wanted to build an empire.