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.

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.

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

It's about the power of design and the power of the human spirit. It's above paying anybody to do something stupid for money like reality television does - like ambushing people.

Eventually you will come to realize that love heals everything, and love is all there is.

Prayer connects us with God and together we are unstoppable

We can reach our potential, but to do so, we must reach within ourselves. We must summon the strength, the will, and the faith to move forward - to be bold - to invest in our future.

I love going to the movies and getting Raisinets, a big tub of popcorn and a Coke. That's definitely a guilty pleasure because I can't be doing that all the time.

For it is the dawn that has come, as it has come for a thousand centuries, never failing.

I like feeling at home and knowing people. I like talking about ideas and being friendly.

I believe in an "all of the above" energy strategy.

All those writers who write about their own childhood! Gentle God, if I wrote about mine you wouldn't sit in the same room with me.

Good writing happens when human beings follow particular steps to take control of their sentences-to make their words do what they want them to do.

We want the active and zealous help of every man far-sighted enough to realize the importance from the standpoint of the nation's welfare in the future of preserving the forests.