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.

I try to seek out and surround myself with people who just percolate fresh, original, and creative ideas.

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

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

Broaden yourself. You don't have to focus when you're 20. I think the broader you are, the better it is. Later you can focus on your real interests and ideas. The ultimate goal is to be an interesting, useful, wholesome person. If you're successful on top of that, then you're way ahead of everybody.

I catnap now and then, but I think while I nap, so it's not a waste of time.

You have to focus on what's important to you and go for it. But don't stab people in the back. It poisons your whole life if you're like that.