I do not think we should tax people to a point where they are looking for tax loopholes and getting their money out of the country.

The first rule of management is delegation. Don't try and do everything yourself because you can't.

Whether it's cushions you only use outside in the summer, or blankets that only come out in the winter, you've always got to think of where to store them.

If you are a housewife, take pride in that.

Rearranging furniture, adding some candles, or making even small tweaks can really make the difference.

People who earn reasonable amounts are being turned into the anti-Christ. I think 45 per cent tax is a colossal amount to take off somebody, and it is taking away the incentive to earn.

Run a home like you would a small business and treat it with the same seriousness.

I grew up in a world before people had credit cards. There were no magic cards - it was all about budgeting.

A proper family diary with everyone's events and parties in it really helps organise the household.

It's cool to have a well run, comfortable and inviting home.

Of course, we all have to be taxed, but once you start to earn more than £150,000, and start paying 45 per cent tax, you are penalised. It is like a witch hunt.

Make good choices and always do your best.

It is your own assent to yourself, and the constant voice of your own reason, and not of others, that should make you believe.

Pretty soon the only people left without a girlfriend will be me and Wendell the school janitor, and he smells like windex." "At least you know he's still available.

Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.

Men to whom wine had brought death long before lay by springs of wine and drank still, too stupefied to know their lives were past.

Education was almost entirely a matter of luck — usually of ill-luck — in those distant days.

How much do you know about the Heartland War?' Connor shrugs. 'It was the last chapter in our history textbook, but we had state testing, so we never got to it.

You get perspective on things when you're away from your child, and in a way, your love for them becomes even deeper.

It's okay to screw up. It's what we do afterward that defines us.

After the conversations about Indian philosophy, some of the ideas of Quantum Physics that had seemed so crazy suddenly made much more sense.