I use a Blackberry. I'm so behind on mobile communication technology, I think a smartwatch may be too far a leap.

With her first Oscar nomination for her portrayal of Lisbeth Salander in The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Rooney Mara gave fashion fans a new Gothic-chic muse.

A good party is one that is designed to entertain and bond friends. The bad parties I've been to are the ones that are held to impress other people.

I think the sort of person you want at a party is someone who is self-aware, polite and has a basic knowledge of table manners. And that goes for both men and women.

Often times if you're bored, the other person is probably bored too.

One of the perks of my job as a fashion journalist is the travel opportunity.

Morning tide makes a great companion when you don't want to be around people. It soothes and comforts and doesn't ask for anything.

Whilst personal effectiveness focuses more on your personal development goals as you become the best practitioner in your area of specialty

You have to want to succeed as bad as you want to breathe!

The celebration of death is not a good thing. Fetishizing death isn't a good thing. You should be celebrating life and enjoying it and all that.

Ease and luxury, such as our affluence brings today, do not make for maturity; hardship and struggle however do.

Enemies are so stimulating.

Streets crowded with people strolling, or sitting at outdoor cafes. And always, talking, gesturing, singing, laughing. I liked Rome immediately.Everybody was a performer.

Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone, you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.

Yet I pity the poor wretch, though he's my enemy. He's yoked to an evil delusion, but the same fate could be mine. I see clearly: we who live are all phantoms, fleeing shadows.

If God himself was not willing to use coercion to force man to accept certain religious views, man, uninspired and liable to error, ought not to use the means that Jehovah would not employ.