Our passion is and should always be to make life better.

I never pay attention to age or gender. There are just too many other more important things to consider.

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.

All the things I love is what my business is all about.

If you're doing a recipe on national television, there's really no room for being sloppy or a nonperfectionist.

I love the challenge of starting at zero every day and seeing how much I can accomplish.

When I was growing up my mom was home. She wanted to go to work, but she waited. She was educated as a teacher. The minute my youngest sister went to school full-time, from first grade, mom went back to work. But she balanced her life. She chose teaching, which enabled her to leave at the same time we left, and come home pretty much the same time we came home. She knew how to balance.