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.

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.

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.

As she laughed I was aware of becoming involved in her laughter and being part of it, until her teeth were only accidental stars with a talent for squad-drill.

They say what doesn't kill u makes u stronger.. but truth is sometimes it does kill u, it kills a part of u then it makes u stronger.

The body is not a reliable friend

There are no people who are whole" he says. "Everyone has issues of their own to deal with. Mine might be a little harder, but the main thing is how on deals with them.

Think to yourself that every day is your last; the hour to which you do not look forward will come as a welcome surprise.

The inscrutability [of economics] is perhaps not unintentional. It gives endless employment to dialecticians who otherwise might become public charges or, at very worst, swindlers and tricksters.

To the whole world you might be just one person, but to one person you might just be the whole world.

I would like to go to Russia very much — although the bastards murdered half my family.

I don't think I could do a reality show, no.

It is my intention to live an authentic life of compassion and integrity and action.