You can change the feel of your sofa by adding a thick, cozy throw and playing a couple of classic pillows off a more Moroccan-inspired one.

Everywhere your eye travels in your home, it should land on something that resonates with you.

One of the biggest lessons I've learned during my time on 'Oprah' is that everyone wants to be heard. We all want to have our humanity acknowledged - to have others see us for who we truly are. We all want to know that we are valued, we are heard, we are understood.

You don't need to spend a lot of money on stuff when you have amazing architecture.

Books are the heart of any home, and I spend hours going through books for design inspiration.

I think that a lot of guys reach for electronics first, but the truth is that you can never keep up with electronics. You buy a flat-screen TV, and then six months later, there's one that has 3D and Blu-ray and all this business, and that is just going to keep continuing.

I always had this New York fantasy of living in a glass high-rise.