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.

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.

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.

My mother says I'm like a disease that can walk into a room and get it infected. I can destroy things in seconds.

I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.

There can be no friendship without confidence, and no confidence without integrity.

Words of affirmation are powerful. Words change lives

Never give way to melancholy resist it steadily for the habit will encroach.

Winning the [Nobel] prize wasn't half as exciting as doing the work itself.

The danger lies not in the big ears of little pitchers, but in the large mouths.

If A were not allowed his better position, B would be even worse off than he is.

The first goal and primary function of the U.S. public school is not to educate good people, but good citizens. It is the function which we call - in enemy nations - 'state indoctrination.'

To triple the growth of your organization, triple the growth of your people.

Education in the art of dance is education of the whole man − his physical, mental and emotional natures are disciplined and nourished simultaneously in dance.