All the necessary elements of a room should not arrive on installation day. Room should always be left for the things we will acquire...the objects we cannot live without.

Just as a picture is created by adding a dab of paint at a time, the best arrangements are created a step at a time, with pauses so you can step back and see the overall effect.

Decorating is like music. Harmony is what we constantly strive for. At home, we want a peaceful atmosphere where the objects are the notes and nothing is off-key.

An empty room is a story waiting to happen, and you are the author.

Take the time and do some small thing that will be noticed and remembered. Choose your objects carefully, and buy only what you love.

Decorating is like math, a game of adding and subtracting.

... our objects, bibelots, whatnots, and knickknacks-say the most about who we are. They are as honest as a diary.

What we remember most about rooms we like is the 'atmosphere.'

There are two things that make a room timeless: a sense of history and a piece of the future.

Decorating is a footnote to real life for me, a means to an end: Living well.

Casual elegance is all about the mix.

Nature [provides] with the excitement of the dance in the interest of the reproduction of the species.

Apparently officers are not ‘men’. Officers are ‘officers’.

Education is the leading of human souls to what is best, and making what is best out of them.

Never part without loving words to think of during your absence. It may be that you will not meet again in this life.

Usability is like love. You have to care, you have to listen, and you have to be willing to change. You’ll make mistakes along the way, but that’s where growth and forgiveness come in.

Wit is absolutely sociable spirit or aphoristic genius.

I needed to become something besides the star everybody had built me up to be.

The world is full of genies waiting to grant your wishes.

As a part owner, I'm going to be not only an admirer... but a nervous wreck.

I don't mess around when it comes to brushing my teeth. Properly brushed, twice a day, every day, to get my day started.