Don’t stretch yourself too much with a mortgage. Buy within your means. It’s not worth the sleepless nights.

In any market, in any country, there are developers who make money. So I say all of this doom and gloom, but there will always be people who make money, because people always want homes.

Positive things happen to positive people.

For me adulthood is realising that there are no grown-ups and everyone else is winging it.

Doing a job badly and then getting someone in to sort it out can be much more expensive than getting someone in to do the job properly in the first place.

If you really love property, and buildings, lifestyles and how people live, that's a good reason for going into development.

Love's a weird one, isn't it? I've never told my husband Graham that I love him. He's never told me either. I think it started as a bit of a joke. We just decided never to say it.

I made a conscious decision to earn enough to be able to choose my husband rather than not have a career and marry someone who would have to earn enough for us both to live on.

I see it all perfectly

Every memory becomes a golden treasure to us when we have lived our lives with tragedy and triumphs, sadness and happiness.

Now we live in fairyland. The only lightly disappointing thing about this land is that it is smaller than the real world has ever been.

My husband and I click wedding rings sometimes and say, 'By the power of the Castle of Greyskull!'

Industrialization is the systemic exploitation of wasting assets. In all too many cases, the thing we call progress is merely an acceleration in the rate of that exploitation.

It isn’t a big jump in the imagination to see yourself living alone like Mr Hoppy.

The words 'forse che si,' 'forse che no', 'perhaps yes,' 'perhaps no,' repeat along all paths.

Speech belongs half to the speaker, half to the listener. The latter must prepare to receive it according to the motion it takes.

THAT’S MORTALS FOR YOU, Death continued. THEY’VE ONLY GOT A FEW YEARS IN THIS WORLD AND THEY SPEND THEM ALL IN MAKING THINGS COMPLICATED FOR THEMSELVES. FASCINATING.

We are constantly misled by the ease with which our minds fall into the ruts of one or two experiences