You can be the most beautiful person on earth, and if you don't have a fitness or diet routine, you won't be beautiful.

I think I may be a better person for having given serious time and thought and effort to gardening.

I used to wear real fur, but, like many others, I had a change of heart when I learned what actually happens to the animals.

When I was incarcerated at Alderson in West Virginia for a five-month term, they had a ceramics class.

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

I adore summer entertaining. For a dinner party at the farm, I might prepare homemade fettuccine with porcini mushrooms, soft-shell crabs, spinach from the garden, and lemon tarts with fraises des bois for dessert.

There is no single recipe for success. But there is one essential ingredient: Passion