I must reclaim my good life and I must return to my good works.

I think baking cookies is equal to Queen Victoria running an empire. There's no difference in how seriously you take the job, how seriously you approach your whole life.

Plants respond far better to moderate but consistent care than they do to occasional bouts of heroic intervention.

I'm not a sponge exactly, but I find that something I look at is a great opportunity for ideas.

The cocktail party is probably America's greatest contribution to the world of entertaining.

All I really want is a three-room house. The home I have designed at my new farm in Bedford, New York, is a three-room house: bedroom on top, living room in the middle, and kitchen on the ground.

I - I try to do as much as I can, wherever I am. So, at the farm, I'm always thinking of some new project, some new thing I can do.