Unless you completely understand the investment world, do not mess around with it. It is not something I would go anywhere near.

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.

The mind is wired by society, the heart is wired by your deepest desires for a blissful life.

What's wrong with all black?"Egg - Book 1 "Making it

It's easier to go down a hill than up it but the view is much better at the top.

Always warm up the audience with a joke....If you are not a particularly funny person, make sure that you inform them that it's a joke.

An old couple came running from a motorhome, scribbling as they ran. Their sign read, Can you check on our cat, Ariel? No one would answer that, because the cats had all been eaten.

Manners are just a formal expression of how you treat people.

Value, whether the result of massed lines, broad strokes, or washes, is the necessary and only tool for modelling form with light.

If some beggar steals a bridle he'll be hung by a man who's stolen a horse.

One either imposes one's ideas or one is imposed on.

Live as if you were living already for the second time.