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

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.

There never has been a house so bad that it couldn't be made over into something worthwhile.

If I learned something it was the ride of life, it is fun and crazy.

Stay awake. Spread awareness. Take action.

Neither should a ship rely on one small anchor, nor should life rest on a single hope.

One runs the risk of weeping a little, if one lets himself be tamed.

He is a Patron who looks down, / With careless eyes on men who drown; / But if they chance to reach the land, / Encumbers them with helping hand

Ideas never lack for words. It is words that lack ideas.

Business happens over years and years. Value is measured in the total upside of a business relationship, not by how much you squeezed out in any one deal.

Fetters of gold are still fetters, and the softest lining can never make them so easy as liberty.

I'm the sheen on water, Rin thought. I'm a looking glass. I'm not real.

I came from a very poor family and my main dream in life was to break out of this poverty.