But instead of that stuff you get relationships with people and neighbors that you would never get in a city. People in small towns are a lot more open.

I think that, in comparison, New Yorkers and Northerners are so guarded.

I think we typically, as Northerners, stereotype what the South is in so many negative ways. We kind of forget all the beautiful things that they contribute to make this country a country.

So, like I said, I will visit Jeffersonville more often because I now have a little getaway house up there.

Design can have such a positive impact on the way people live and on their relationships and moods.

So, to really execute design in its highest form and making people feel joy, that's a great reward.

The hardest part of the show is saying goodbye when it's all done. It really breaks you.

That was always my frustration with so many of these shows, because design is not an ambush... it's a relationship. You have to know how people move and live and work to be able to design for them.

You need to have a home to go back to, whether it's a hotel room or a barn. It's only home when he's there.

I'm opening a store at the end of the month in the New York meatpacking district. I'm launching a line of bedding this summer, and I am writing a book that will be out next January.

Oprah has this intense curiosity that I haven't found with any interviewer.

The harmony of soul with the spirit is Happiness.

Don’t fear uniqueness. Fear similarities and acceptance. Create a new trend by defining yourself.

You know, he said, our work is difficult: we confrontmuch sorrow and disappointment.He gazed at me with increasing frankness.I was like you once, he added, in love with turbulence.

Change yourself before changing anyone else

When I was 12, all I wanted for Christmas was a trampoline or a four-wheeler. I ended up getting both presents for Christmas.

The world must know that America holds to the highest standards of military conduct and human rights protections. Anything less is unacceptable

Hate war, but love the American Warrior.

Nothing about human beings ever had the power to move me as a child. Black Beauty now ... !

I would say that one of the things I wish I could do differently would be to be more outgoing.

He has the strangest expression on his face- the emotional equivalent of 404 PAGE NOT FOUND.