Why do we consider that just because people have more money, they do not deserve it? It is totally wrong. They deserve everything they have earned.

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.

Employment deprives you of the purpose of existence

We may be floating on Tao, but there is nothing wrong with steering. If Tao is like a river, it is certainly good to know where the rocks are.

Good evening and good night.

Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it.

Passion is the great slayer of adversity. Focus on strengths and what you enjoy.

This whole tribal loyalty seems to have gone.

Once you'd resolved to go, there was nothing to it at all.

The strength of a nation, especially of a republican nation, is in the intelligent and well ordered homes of the people.

O Day of days when we can read! The reader and the book, either without the other is naught.

I only know two pieces; one is 'Clair de Lune' and the other one isn't.