Run a home like you would a small business and treat it with the same seriousness.
Performing doesn't turn me on. It's an egomaniac business, filled with prima donnas - including this one.
The problem with venality in business is that getting outraged about it makes it easy to miss the systemic problems that venality often disguises.
To rush to throw away your magazine business and move it on the iPad is just sheer insanity and insecurity and fear.
Understand why casinos and racetracks stay in business - the gambler always loses over the long term.
The people of Gaza are trapped. Israel has sealed the border, and they have no way to leave the Gaza Strip to do business.
CNN canceled all the shows I was on. They're going in a different direction, but that's their privilege. They own the business.
I tend not to think about the reading public at all, or the business, when I'm writing.
After being in captivity for so long, I can't begin to describe how wonderful it feels to be home in Canada.
My passion is writing, but it is also a fight because I still see home as a woman's duty.
Can one preach at home inequality of races and nations and advocate abroad good-will towards all men?
There's a magical tie to the land of our home, which the heart cannot break, though the footsteps may roam.
At home I have big vats of cabbage soup that I make to slim down.
I turned my home state of Florida into the Land of Xanth.
Pets, like their owners, tend to expand a little over the Christmas period.
It may be a cliche, but it's true - the build-up to Christmas is so much more pleasurable than the actual day itself.
One Christmas build-up tradition, however, has totally bypassed me - that of going up to town and 'doing a show.'
The real evidence for Jesus and Christianity is in how Jesus and the Christianity based on him manifest themselves in the lives of practicing Christians.
'The war in Iraq - if Osama was a Christian - it's the Christmas present he never would have expected.
Nothing is as peaceful as when Christmas is over, when one has been forgiven for everything and can be normal again.
I'm totally obsessed with Dickens, and 'Great Expectations' was one of the first book's I read when I was still in school in Porthcawl.
