If you are a housewife, take pride in that.

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.

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.

Divorce is the biggest drain, outside of school fees, and nobody wins. People think it is always in the woman's favour, but it is not necessarily.

The starting place for radical re-imagining of love is mindfulness.

When perseverance becomes a force of habit, success becomes a guarantee.

Don't waste time on jealousy. Sometimes you're ahead, sometimes you're behind.

The Internet knows no national borders.

At fifteen, it [ "Follies"] didn't have any kind of resonance with me, this show about regret and middle age.

I think Bitcoin is a massive conceptual and helpful step forward.

Action comedy, if you can get it right, it is, for me, a particularly brilliant genre. It really is.

There is peace in dungeons, but is that enough to make dungeons desirable?

It's those little daily incidents of life that are dramatic, and if you put a frame around it , suddenly they become much bigger and much more important than you ever imagined.

There is no disease more conducive to clinical humility than aneurysm of the aorta.