We can finish a house, but never a home. Once you fall in love with a house, you find continual pleasures in fixing it up and making innovations that satisfy your creature's comforts.

Feeling at home with ourselves and being able to create a spirit of place that nourishes us physically, emotionally and spiritually is a goal worthy of our highest priority.

My grandfather was a Methodist preacher, and my father was an unsuccessful businessman. We didn't have status or wealth.

When you leave a beautiful place, you carry it with you wherever you go.

My most amazing discovery was becoming a mother. It changed everything. I can't imagine my life without these little beings.

The development of physics, like the development of any science, is a continuous one.

The crisis triggered a fertile period of scientific ferment and revolution in economic theory.

In the Nineties, there was all this new research into brain development, with evidence saying poor kids fall behind in school because no one is talking to them at home, no one is reading to them. And middle-class parents seized on this research.