Never reveal your insecurities to a man, because nine times out of 10 they have no idea they even exist.

Reese Witherspoon is my everywoman. She's managed to have a family and this amazing career. That's the goal.

I look at my father. He is one of my heroes. He is such an incredible, classy man. He was such a great father and such a great husband in so many ways, and we lived through some pretty tough times losing my mom. When I see all that he did, I think, 'Wow, that's a really wonderful man.'

I'm actually very sensitive to energies, and when people are not aligned, I can feel that.

Throughout his career, W.G. Sebald wrote poems that were strikingly similar to his prose. His tone, in both genres, was always understated but possessed of a mournful grandeur.

From my very first day as an entrepreneur, I've felt the only mission worth pursuing in business is to make people's lives better.

I'm incredibly ambitious, but I feel I've got a fantastic career, and I love the anonymity. I love that no one knows who I am.

One of the best places to look for value is what I call 'babies thrown out with the bathwater' - in other words, scour the most out-of-favour sectors for good companies whose stocks have been crushed due to overblown concerns about the industry that do not, in fact, have an impact on the company.