I think when you're really stressed out and can't really face reality... you shop.

Just throw me in my coffin now with these earrings on.

I believe fantasy and dreaming can be made a reality. You don't have to be rich. You don't have to be a VIP.

I did not have a van, or wear Birkenstocks and tie-dyes.

Here's my rule about shoes, buy them.

It's better to have fewer things of quality than too much expendable junk.

Style is a way to say who you are without having to speak.

I would wear a turban to Whole Foods.

Sexiness should not be overt. Something shapeless that drapes across your hip, hangs off the shoulder; something that cowls in the front, drapes low in the back, that's sexy.

I think that sexiness should be in the subtleties.

Accessories are everything. To me, they're more important than the clothes.

Celebrating your achievements and applauding your triumphs is a sure way to refuel your enthusiasm and keep yourself motivated for your future endeavours.

I grew up in a family where we weren't allowed to talk about beauty or to put any emphasis on physical appearance.

Memory is... similar to anticipation: an instrument of simplification and selection.

As the husband is, the wife is.

Capacity building originally meant helping people to help themselves. Now it means required training to deliver imposed policies.

Creativity varies inversely with the number of cooks involved in the broth.

Where the states are dead set on suppressing political opposition, it's very hard to overcome that.

I went through this delayed-adolescence thing. I didn't want to be tied down to a family.

I'm not trying to say that we're facing or looking at a likely repeat of history. It would be great if we were.

I think quite often a fate worse than death is life, for lots of people.