"I'm trying just to do good clothes, clothes that you need as much as you want."

“Courage is not limited to the battlefield or the Indianapolis 500 or bravely catching a thief in your house. The real tests of courage are much quieter. They are the inner tests, like remaining faithful when nobody's looking, like enduring pain when the room is empty, like standing alone when you're misunderstood.”

“I know I have plenty of enemies, but I'd rather be the most-hated winning coach in the country than the most-popular losing one.”

“A reciprocal of a fraction is found by flipping it upside down. If you want the reciprocal of a mixed number or a whole number, just convert it to an improper fraction, and then flip it!”

“Leaders must pick causes they won't abandon easily, remain committed despite setbacks, and communicate their big ideas over and over again in every encounter.”

“Rumors are like lightning on summer tinder, producing flames that dance in flickering brilliance from person to person, sometimes flaring in great conflagrations of exaggeration before finally extinguishing themselves in the cold waters of fact.”

“I’m going with Darrelle Revis.”

“When I was very little my mother said I used to draw in the air with my fingers. I needed a pencil. Once I could hold one, I have drawn every day since.”

“The Lady' is a piddling little magazine that no one cares about or buys.”

Source : Rachel Johnson (2010). “A Diary of The Lady: My First Year As Editor”, p.235, Penguin UK