Quotes from Martha Stewart

My dream... was to be an eclectic knowledge-gathering person.

When I was incarcerated at Alderson in West Virginia for a five-month term, they had a ceramics class.

I think that people want to know how to do practical and everyday things like how to get the pomegranate seeds out of a pomegranate.

I'm not supposed to say it, but I was not guilty of any crime. I became a target because I was a strong and a rich woman who had been very successful.

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.

The last place I would ever want to go is prison.

When you write a book, you're an expert, and people look at you in a different way.

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.

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.

I don't think in a male or female way. I don't differentiate between male and female. I never have. I'm not considered a feminist.

I don't even like firing people. I don't think I've ever said, 'You're fired' to anybody.

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.

Without an open-minded mind, you can never be a great success.

There is no single recipe for success. But there is one essential ingredient: Passion

It's sort of the American way to go up and down the ladder, maybe several times in a lifetime.

Our passion is and should always be to make life better.

Franchesca and Sharkey, my French bulldogs, have their own blog. And they are brilliant at it.

I always thought I would be a teacher. And I think I actually lived up to my initial dreams, because what I do now is teach millions and millions of people many different kinds of things.

I'm kind of a complainer, but not about getting old. I complain about, you know, something that can be fixed.

I can keep learning about all the different technologies. It's my most telling characteristic. I'm interested in trying anything new.

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

My parents were able to pay our expenses, but not for education. We were encouraged to work hard in school and get scholarships.

I think I may be a better person for having given serious time and thought and effort to gardening.

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