You can't regret what you can't remember.

Preppy clothes are built to last, since they certainly won't go out of style.

Wool, cotton, and the odd bits of silk and cashmere are the only acceptable materials for Prep clothes. They look better. They require professional maintenance. They are more expensive.

Cynicism is more than a pose; it's also a handy time saver. By deflating your companion's enthusiasm, you can cut conversations in half.

In a true democracy everyone can be upper class and live in Connecticut.

A tip: if you're invited to your friend's country club to go the lost and found bin and pretend that you left something there. Next thing you know, you have a fabulous sweater.

Sarcasm mascarades as the Preppy's sense of humor.

Like everything else, Preppiness begins in the home.

It is the inalienable right of every man, woman, and child to wear khaki.

The University of Miami is not a campus with visible school spirit, just visible tan lines.

If you tell a friend a secret, she will keep the secret by telling only one other person.

Everything is useful which contributes to fix in the principles and practices of virtue.

When I come back to you, if I come back to you, will I know you? Will you be the city of my memory? Or will you be a stranger?

Brands should think of themselves not as storytellers but storybuilders. We plant seeds of content and let our community build on it.

I believe not only in "special providences," but in the whole universe as one infinite complexity of "special providences.

Half of what I say is meaningless; but I say it so that the other half may reach you.

Attitude is a choice. What you think you can do, whether positive or negative, confident or scared, will most likely happen.

Solitude is the mother of anxieties.

We're not completely happy here because we're not supposed to be!

Ends and beginnings—there are no such things. There are only middles.

Let your ears hear without trying to hear. Let the mind think without trying to think and without trying to stop it. That is practice.