Good dressing is largely a question of detail and accessories.

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!

[She wasn't] a logically reasoning woman, but God is good, and hearts may count in heaven as high as heads.

The emmet's inch and eagle's mileMake lame philosophy to smile.He who doubts from what he seesWill ne'er believe, do what you please.- "Auguries of Innocence

Men who love their mothers treat women wonderfully. And they have enormous respect for women.

Am I alive and a reality, or am I but a dream?

Half of the misery in the world comes from trying to look, instead of trying to be, what one is not.

I think we don't do a service to dialogue between science and faith to characterize sincere people by calling them names. That inspires an even more dug-in position.

The reason so many problems do not get solved in Washington is that solving those problems is not the No. 1 priority: Re-election is.

I always thought of running as just dancing forward.

Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.

As artists, it's really important to take time to see what other art is happening and to know what's happening in the world.