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.

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.

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.

Vengeance is sweet. Vengeance taken when the vengee isn't sure who the venger is, is sweeter still.

Anyone who believes that exponential growth can go on forever in a finite world is either a madman or an economist.

The art of living well and the art of dying well are one.

If I trim myself to suit others I will soon whittle myself away.

But all this world is like a tale we hear - Men's evil, and their glory, disappear.

Speaking of New York as a traveller I have two faults to find with it. In the first place there is nothing to see; and in the second place there is no mode of getting about to see anything.

To be right and overruled is not forgiven to persons in responsible positions.

Every man who is not a monster, a mathematician, or a mad philosopher, is the slave of some woman or other.

It is better - it shall be better with me because I have known you.

I live in Florida, and I live on a small lagoon. I sit and look out at the water all day - that's what my desk is.