Study your strengths; then decide how hard you want to work

Giving information that will help everybody live better. That's a teacher's dream - to accumulate information and disperse it in a form that allows people to choose the way they're going to use it. That's what I think I do best.

I live in an old house with no closets and no built-ins. I hate big cupboards.

Seek out people to work with who are brimming with talent, energy, integrity, optimism, and generosity.

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

I was a very curious person because of my parents. They encouraged me to be as curious about as many things as I wanted.

To entertain at home is both a relief and a rediscovery - of rooms and settings, of your favorite things, and particularly of your own tastes and ideas.