Consider your house from an aesthetic point of view.

If everybody knows where everything is kept you can avoid wasting time looking for things.

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

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

Storage is important. 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.

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

There's no getting away from it: you have to clean.

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

If you are a housewife, take pride in that.

Consider your house from an aesthetic point of view.

Knowing that you're the one who's been rejected, God it makes you feel isolated. I defy anybody not to be a bit upset. I felt as though I'd walked into the house trailing all this baggage.

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

The first rule of management is delegation. Dont try and do everything yourself because you cant.

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

If you are a housewife take pride in that.

I like the superhero comic books, and I like to see what the actors do creatively with the characters and how they bring these superheroes to life in the movies.

You don't sell as many records as you used to because of illegal downloads, but I think there are other ways you can make money through your music. Whether it's through merchandise or teaming up with other companies or brands or whatever, there are ways.

I think every fiction writer, to a certain extent, is a schizophrenic and able to have two or three or five voices in his or her body. We seek, through our profession, to get those voices onto paper.

I just am grateful for every opportunity to go to work. I don't really focus on celebrity status.

I really don't get recognized much.

I grew up in a city, I'm a city person - I go on holiday and I'm bored.

An old friend met in a far country is like rain after a drought.

It is critical that parents and other trusted adults initiate conversations with kids about underage drinking well in advance of the first time they are faced with a decision regarding alcohol.

We're going to have to look very seriously at what we're doing right or wrong because we just keep losing.

Again, like I said, I went out to play the game of baseball because I love to play it. I did it right. I did it the right way. I worked hard doing it.

Philosophical reflection could not leave the relation of mind and spirit in the obscurity which had satisfied the needs of the naive consciousness.

Obviously the idea of being human is a very human idea.

Research indicates that workers have three prime needs Interesting work recognition for doing a good job and being let in on things that are going on in the company.

On my first date, my boyfriend asked me if I wanted to eat a la carte, and I said that I would prefer to stay inside!

I feel like unforgiveness, bitterness and resentment, it blocks the flows of God's blessings in life.

I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do.

I have a real passion for playing a role that's a strong female character, that's just not typical, with a lot of heart, not an easy sell of a movie, not real commercial. It doesn't have to be a big movie, but I'm just looking for something that I really, truly, 100 percent believe in and am behind.

I've been a professional writer for 20 years, and there are contours in that time, crescents and troughs.

I don't want to do anything in bad taste.

Classic romantic love is an emotional attraction between two individuals in which they may share a heightened awareness of mutual adoration. Erotic love, traditionally, has been described as shared sexual attraction.

They're called 'angels' because they're in heaven until the reviews come out.

I had this idea that the coolest thing that could happen to you was talking with God. My father was always talking about God, and I idolized my father, so I'd spend hours trying to have mental telepathy with God.

If your child's going to ride in a car or go swimming or play soccer, all of those things involve risk. And if your child doesn't do any of those things, then they're probably sitting too much, and that involves risk, too.

I firmly believe that you can't get a good movie without risking a bad movie. A good adaptation of your book is worth it because it is such a wonderful experience to see your world translated onto the screen.