Mum and I were delighted to find out we were descended from 'bog-trotters.'

My face hasn't matured as I've grown up, and neither has my sense of humour. In the mirror, I see an older version of myself as a child, although I do have more wrinkles and freckles.

While farmers' markets are booming in cities, actual rural market towns are in decline.

Be kind, don't judge, and have respect for others. If we can all do this, the world would be a better place. The point is to teach this to the next generation.

I'd never go under the knife because I have a phobia of needles.

Never being number one in your list of priorities and not minding at all.

People talk about me as if I am the sole inheritor of the Guinness family fortune and worth masses, but I have hundreds of cousins.

I once stayed in a roach-infested hotel in Istanbul for a work trip. I had to share my room with a male model, and pointedly all we talked about was our other halves.

We have too many poisons in our diets now, like sugar and caffeine.

I grew up in Ireland, so I do not have a lot of respect for most politicians.

I have always loved clothes, and the opportunity to design my own line could not be missed. It's a dream job.

He who called her so called her by her true name, for she is the full moon of full moons, afore God!

We don't merely want to see beauty: we want to become part of it.

See yourself as the perfect creation that you are, but at the same time, recognize with sincere honesty, the areas of your life that are out of balance and get to work to improve and grow.

Consensus is what many people say in chorus but do not believe as individuals.

I was very much a product of the public-school system. There was only one other kid in my class who had parents not involved in the stock market or law.

I always loved smokestack industry, and I love towns or cities that have grown up around factories.

Work hard, have fun and make history.

You probably have to trust that your work is following certain themes and certain movements, but then the rest is a kind of piecing together so that the whole becomes larger than the parts.

The central premise of great leadership is recognizes that fundamental fact, that not of us are fixed entities, and taking responsibility for making sure that we bring out our people's best selves.

My nickname in high school was jack-o-lantern because I'm missing 9 teeth