Avoid too much intense color. Make sure you mix colors and try them out. It's always good to do a swatch.

People buy very badly made furniture and fabric. Instead, buy a beautiful dining table, well-made upholstery. It's almost like dressing for success.

People with big personalities are best in the center of the table. They can help carry the conversation from that place.

Look at your world and your life, and look at what is personal to you. If you're living in an apartment, you need to stick with a narrative that's personal to you.

Make sure furniture decor has similar scale. It's all about scale, proportion, measuring, being conscious of the overall plan.

To have a 9-foot sofa in a small room can be kind of treacherous.

Think of how much furniture you need. What's the best way to have it be functional in a great way? If it's in groups, define it.

People get trapped in the way things should feel and less focused on the way things should function.

Be judicious with your budget and buy things that are going to last.

Avoid spending too much on one thing.

People buy things in isolation and don't think of how they work together.

Of all the things which man can do or make here below, by far the most momentous, wonderful, and worthy are the things we call books.

What you are afraid of is never as bad as what you imagine. The fear you let build up in your mind is worse than the situation that actually exists.

Affirming others isn’t ‘flattering’ them—it’s when you genuinely and consistently acknowledge their efforts and accomplishments, both large and small. Make affirmation a habit and watch what happens!

My virgin sense of sound was steeped In the music of young streams; And roses through the casement peeped, And scented all my dreams.

Mobs have passions, not brains.

There is a time for politeness and there is a time when you are obliged to be rude.

I took interest in Paris Hilton at one point and got fascinated with her voice.

When you have grasped a problem clearly, face it with resolution, for that is the way of the strong.

When I was in sixth grade, I wanted to become a priest.

I am not absolutely positive there is no god. Only in the sense that I'm not absolutely positive there is no large china teapot in orbit in the solar system.