Without an open-minded mind, you can never be a great success.

The first book really was kind of an entertaining textbook for the homemaker. I couldn't find a good book about entertaining in 1982, and neither could my friend, so I decided to write it.

You should never accept what can be offered to you if you feel it can be improved.

Bloggers create kind of a popularity. But they are not the experts, and we have to understand that.

To entertain at home is both a relief and a rediscovery - of rooms and settings, of your favorite things, and particularly of your own tastes and ideas.

All I really want is a three-room house. The home I have designed at my new farm in Bedford, New York, is a three-room house: bedroom on top, living room in the middle, and kitchen on the ground.

Fifty-seven percent of Americans are do-it-yourselfers, craftspeople, and artisans and makers.