Like I said, TLC has enough of my life. I have to keep some of it for myself.

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.

Go forward and achieve your God-given goals.

Paradox: Pinocchio says “My nose will grow" if it doesn’t he is lying but it didn’t grow and if it does he is telling the truth and it did?

Slow are the steps of freedom, but her feet turn never backward.

I think America is going to have to think through whether it wants to uplift the political dialogue or advance an approach that divides and, frankly, can lead to violence.

I never understood a word John Cassavetes said. And I think he did that deliberately.

I have never been impressed by the formal schools of ethics.

If I get to know somebody, I'll open up, but other than that I like to sit back and observe things.

The heart of man is restless until he finds rest in Thee.

Too many people go through life waiting for things to happen instead of making them happen!

Stay humble, stay grounded, remember what got you to that level-and that’s hard work.