A house should be a synthesis of comfort, practicality, and tradition.

I am going to make everything around me beautiful - that will be my life.

Be pretty if you can, be witty if you must, but be gracious if it kills you.

I believe in optimism & plenty of white paint.

It is the personality of the mistress that the home expresses. Men are forever guests in our homes, no matter how much happiness they may find there.

The cardinal virtue of all beauty is restraint.

You will express yourself in your house whether you want to or not.

I was born with the courage to live. Only those are unwise who have never dared to be fools.

What is the goal? A house that is like the life that goes with it, a house that gives us beauty as we understand it- and beauty of a nobler kind that we may grow to understand.

Light, air and comfort - these three things I must always have in a room.

[At first sight of the Acropolis:] It's beige! My color!

The one duty we owe to history is to rewrite it.

Greatness is not dependent on your background, it is dependent on how much value you were able to add to yourself per time.

Do not sell your soul for a bucketful of pleasures and temptations. It’s God’s priceless gift to you.

Laughter can deflate almost any problem down to its proper size.

One of the better guarantors of ending up in a good relationship: an advanced capacity to be alone.

My music education was oral. I was resistant to scores and things like that. In Jewish religious music, there are no scores. You learn everything by rote, by ear, by repeating.

You must find a way to get your vision seen, implemented, and contributed to by others.

We're principled in the direction we're heading, but we're not going to be stubborn.

Art is life's dream interpretation.

Let them bomb Japan with that nasty missile. Their missile cannot load a nuclear warhead.