New York is very career-orientated and it's hard to take time off here, but that is great for building a business.

I am a control freak.

I always go to the Cannes Film Festival and it's just such a glamorous time.

Bridesmaids are never going to upstage the bride.

I love vintage and prints.

I'm actually an incredibly disorganized, messy person.

Sometimes if I can't sleep and I am up in the night, I will start researching things - it could be an image I've seen, or a book I am reading.

My great-grandfather was in the army in India, and we have photographs of my family there in full Victorian dress. They're incredibly romantic.

My wedding was at home, so I didn't really want to wear a veil in my house. Instead I wore a lot of diamond hair clips. They were brooches, actually, designed by Lorraine Schwartz.

I look much more civilized than I actually am.

I enjoyed studying costume, learning about the corsetry and the historical context of fashion. I never had any real intention of being a costume designer.

Take time to reflect, let ideas flow on their own schedule and let yourself have numerous bad ideas to inspire the good ones.

Woe to those who lead idle lives. Idleness is a dreadful illness and must be cured in childhood. If it is not cured then, it can never be cured.

Small things become small folks.

As in cooking, living requires that you taste, taste, taste as you go along.

I guess I have friends around me but when you're paying them can they ever really be true friends?

I do all of these things," Daniel said, leaning into her so that their foreheads touched, "because you're my love, Lucinda. For me, you're all there is.

Your value is not determined by your valuables, and God says the most valuable things in life are not things!

With each success your faith in the law will grow stronger, until you reach the point of total conviction. Then you will be invincible.

Slowly, slowly, catch the monkey.

Careerism in Washington "goes to the heart of what's wrong in America right now."