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.

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.

My favourite thing in my wardrobe is my jewelry.

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.

I'm a bit of a romantic.

Thus let bygones be bygones. Let past differences, as nothing be.

Some pray to marry the man they love, my prayer will somewhat vary: I humbly pray to heaven above that I love the man I marry.

You don’t get to pick where you’re from, but you always have control of where you’re going.

You have to have enough respect for other human beings to leave their lives alone. If you admire that life, build it for yourself. Don't just try to come in and take somebody else's life.

I love playing live, I don't like studios all that much. I need the reaction of the audience.

A Christian is one who is invited... to join in the feast, to the joy of being saved, to the joy of being redeemed, to the joy of sharing life with Christ. This is a joy! You are called to a party!

The masses have no habit of self-reliance or original action.

I was a loser in high school.

Momma, you're special," Renesmee told me without any surprise, like she was commenting on the color of my clothes.