I believe in optimism & plenty of white paint.

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.

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!

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

Every decision you make in life will stem from one of two options: love or fear. Choose love.

People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.

I am pleased with the fitness that I have.

I was always interested in social change but never actually did anything about it.

To be religious is to have one's attention fixed on God and on one's neighbour in relation to God.

Ya know it was a toss-up whether I go in for diamonds or sing in the choir. The choir lost.

Over the years I have found that many of the richest people in the world began their lives with the habit of tithing.

This is a robbery, boy, gimme them dollars. We hit the lottery, boy, it's in ya wallets!

The only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle.

It's an incredible play, and not only that, that's the type of plays Malcolm makes for our team.