My favourite thing in my wardrobe is my jewelry.

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.

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.

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.

Keedwell cites a study of depression in the Netherlands that found that most people coped better with adversity after experiencing depression.

There are some things you can’t learn at any university, except for one, the University of Life... the only college where everyone is a permanent student.

We have another chance to navigate, perhaps in a slightly different way than we did yesterday. We cannot go back. But we can learn.

Surfing is so much work. It's one of those things that I just love, but it's so hard.

I wanted to make a classical piece that was actually designed to be a CD, not designed for performance.

The monsters in my head are scared of love.

I like any place that isn't here.

Writing is a good example of self-abandonment. I never completely forget myself except when I am writing and I am never more completely myself than when I am writing.

If you will fear nothing, think that all things are to be feared.

I have more fun, and enjoy more finan­cial suc­cess, when I stop try­ing to get what I want and start help­ing other peo­ple get what they want.