My mum is great for keeping hold of old classics - pieces of clothing that never age and never go out of fashion. She also says, 'Make sure you always smile - it makes everything look better!'

To me, the most important thing is to wear something that I love and feel comfortable in, and Christmas is a great opportunity to get one of my old favourites out.

A tip for looking 'picture perfect' is probably a smile. I think everyone looks better when they are happy you give off a glow - or at least that is what my mum would say!

One of the inescapable encumbrances of leading an interesting life is that there have to be moments when you almost lose it.

He cupped her head with both hands. “You’re full of your own kind of magic, and it’s much more rare and beautiful than all the other spells around you. They are commonplace. You are unique.

So before we end and then beginWe'll drink a toast to how it's beenA few more hours to be completeA few more nights on satin sheetsA few more times that I can sayI've loved these days

I'm honor-bound not to struggle with this since you just retrieved it all by yourself. Please do me the courtesy of pretending this is hard for you as well.

I am desperate and vulnerable. ... I am always terrified.... Beauty can sometimes be so very troublesome.

Love is a fluxuating thing, not a fixed thing. That's why we don't understand what's happening.

The way to Heaven is ascending; we must be content to travel uphill, though it be hard and tiresome, and contrary to the natural bias of our flesh.

Everything is happening spontaneously, and the witnessing of it is also happening spontaneously. Everything is already happening in natural balance.

Don't grieve for what doesn't come. Some things that don't happen keep disasters from happening.

We cannot understand all the traits we have inherited. Sometimes we can be strangers to ourselves.