Eating outdoors makes for good health and long life and good temper, everyone knows that.

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!

When we can be alone, we can be with others without using them as an escape.

Any action is good action

I never understand when people say, 'School days are the best of your life.' So it's all downhill from 16? How depressing.

Schools often get the teachers they deserve!

Living radical isn't about where you live - it's about how you love.

The U.S., out of all places, is just absolutely incredible.

Freedom is the real foundation of happiness.

It s easier to impress someone than to give them pleasure.

History shows us that the songs - the myth, the experience and the emotion - live longer the less you explain.

I wrote a few children's books... not on purpose.