For a house to be successful, the objects in it must communicate with one another, respond to and balance one another

I have no recipe for how to combine things. But you must be sincere. And if you are, strangely, it will succeed.

Unless you have a feeling for that secret knowledge that modest things can be more beautiful than anything expensive, you will never have style.

I love America, and I love American women. But there is one thing that deeply shocks me - American closets. I cannot believe one can dress well when you have so much.

To not dare is to have already lost. We should seek out ambitious, even unrealistic projects, because things only happen when we dream.

Minimalism in interior design has become a caricature. Everywhere you find shops or hotels with an ambience that makes you feel like you are in a refrigerator.

Style is to see beauty in modesty.

It's interesting how Obama's adorers in the press keep comparing him to Lincoln and Reagan. Apparently they can't think of a Democrat president worthy of being compared to.

Thinking about dark and troublesome things, wondering when they'll come to pay you a visit, turns out to be the very best way to call them to your side.

I never believed marriage was a lasting institution . . . I thought that to be married for five years was to be married forever.

I'm enjoying the work while I get it right now.

I have to do my duty, whatever task is allotted to me.

If Man retained faith in God, he might also retain faith in Man.

I most want to be remembered for being as great a mother to James and Lennon as my mum was to me and my brother Jamie.

I guess that when you invade a nation of warlords, you end up having to deal with warlords.

My wife could turn to me and she may say, 'Why do you love me?' And I can with all honesty look her in the eye and say, 'Because our pheromones matched our olfactory receptors.'

I work hard and I play hard, too. There is nothing wrong with that.