Plants respond far better to moderate but consistent care than they do to occasional bouts of heroic intervention.

I have cotton or flannel sheets, depending on the weather. They have to be ironed, and I get my bed changed nearly every day.

It's all about new techniques -- simplifying old techniques, and consolidating steps. Making things go faster, but not worse.

I don't have time to have friends come and stay, except on weekends in Maine. I invite a lot of people to come to Maine.

I think baking cookies is equal to Queen Victoria running an empire. There's no difference in how seriously you take the job, how seriously you approach your whole life.

We actually have some gay people that work with us, and we have a lot of friends that are gay, too, and I know that this song has inspired them... I know that coming out was tough on their parents and on them and the whole entire family. For a long time, some of them didn't get to hear 'I love you' from their dads or be accepted in that way. ... It's helped a lot of our friends... We don't judge anybody's lives.

I am always asking myself how I can improve the lives of my customers, my colleagues, my shareholders, my family and my friends.