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

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.

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.

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.

I've never really wanted to go to Japan. Simply because I don’t like eating fish. And I know that's very popular out there in Africa.

I love. The most reckless thing of all.

Virtue makes us aim at the right end, and practical wisdom makes us take the right means.

I agree with Agassiz that dogs possess something very like conscience.

In reality, American girls are among the most outspoken, ambitious, successful girls in the history of the human race.

The deeper your belief, the deeper your pockets.

There is a difference between Senator Obama and Senator McCain. Senator Obama believes that the government ought to be able to take as much as it thinks it needs from anybody.

I am a mom as well as a senator!

Now if I appear to be carefree it's only to camouflage my sadness. In order to keep my pride I try to cover the hurt with a show of gladness.

There are only two ways of telling the complete truth - anonymously and posthumously.