Like Hillary Clinton before her, Mrs. Obama has always been a working woman. She is a lawyer turned hospital administrator turned political right hand. It is a unique resume.

The most luxurious item is a beautiful bed and beautiful, simple sheets.

I just need green. I need to wake up and see grass and squirrels. I don't want to see skyscrapers.

Luxury is...to be able to take control of one's life, health, and the pursuit of happiness in a way that is joyful.

I love people - it is not the fashion, it is the people in fashion I love.

Some days are good; some days are not so good. Some days are really exciting. Some days are just tedious. You just have to get up out of bed.

People need to be edited; life needs to be edited. I need to be edited.

The zenith of elegance in any woman's wardrobe is the little black dress, the power of which suggests dash and refinement.

Drekitude is the lowest point in the lowest ebb. It could be your look. It could be your shoes. It could be that you're standing wrong. Drek is a total, total, total hot mess.

I don't tear down. I prefer to build up.

People love fashion exhibits because they can fantasize. They can respond to a dress even if they can never wear a dress like that.

Speaking as a Christian, I find the Apostle Paul appealing and the apostle Peale appalling.

I've misplaced it all, but I can't seem to lose my brother. It's a priceless gift--to have his love at a time when I've done nothing to earn it.

It is foolish to wait for your ship to come in unless you have sent one out.

Egypt is kind of like the Hollywood of the Middle East. I mean, we had cinema maybe decades before the other Arab countries ever got independence.

It's true that I am not from the south and I have a certain reserve. I take time to get close to, and I don't immediately throw my arms round someone. But it is more a question of style.

Those who forget good and evil and seek only to know the facts are more likely to achieve good than those who view the world through the distorting medium of their own desires.

Perhaps living souls had greater phantom powers than the dead.

I was a real skateboarder, not a gifted skateboarder. I represented that skateboarding was fun to do by being terrible at it.

At another year I would not boggle Except that when I jog I joggle.

It's a roll of the dice when you're a first time director so I prefer to work with people that know more than I do, but that happens less and less as you get older.