Life is too complicated not to be orderly.

My new motto is: When you're through changing, you're through.

Our families and our homes are the center of American life, Everything we do is to make those homes-and the lives in them-more beautiful, more comfortable, more functional and more full of life and light and joy for those we love.

Over the years, I learned so much from mom. She taught me about the importance of home and history and family and tradition. She also taught me that aging need not mean narrowing the scope of your activities and interests or a diminution of the great pleasures to be had in the everyday.

Buttons are the fossils of the sartorial world, enduring long past the garments they were designed to hold together.

Larousse has a place of honor on every cookbook shelf in America.

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