When I was 18, my mum gave me all the clothes she'd had made at the famous haute couture fashion label, House of Worth, in Paris. Of course, I eventually trashed them all.

Careers, children and homemaking all come above preserving your appearance. Self-preservation is at the bottom of the scale.

I literally change on the shop floor. I just stand there in my knickers sometimes.

The mantra is forget your size discover your shape and transform yourself.

As for the people who say tackling problems through clothes is superficial, I think they say that because they have their own issues about self worth.

If you want to make the best of yourself you don't necessarily need to diet - you need to wear the right stuff.

I hate trends, but I love fashion.

I had a strong faith that I would, eventually, have a baby.

A marriage can go wrong at any time.

The first time I was given money to shop for myself, I was 13 and staying with my godmother in New York. I went to Clinique and bought the three-step acne programme and felt so grown-up.

If you want to make the best of yourself, you don't necessarily need to diet - you need to wear the right stuff.

It's the young who will lead us to the future."Free Trader 4 - Battle for the Amazon

Racism is not funny, because it won't solve anything, but making it worst instead, because racism is the reason the world is no longer great.

But change must always be balanced with some degree of consistency.

I do not believe in race as such. Race is a fraud. All modern people are the conglomeration of so many ethnic mixtures that no pure race remains.

The heart bowed down by weight of woe to weakest hope will cling.

Fortune pays you sometimes for the intensity of her favors by the shortness of their duration. She soon tires of carrying any one long on her shoulders.

Being a winner is never an accident; winning comes about by design, determination and positive action.

I can see how people work out to feel better.

My parents gave me stability and a belief in myself and in all the possibilities life has to offer. I was told the only limitations I would ever face were those I placed upon myself.

Lys," he whispered. "Do you know what's coming?" "Yes," she whispered. "And you know that I'll be with you until the end?