In choosing a colour one must realize that it changes in different aspects.

In restoring a house one must first realize its period, feel its personality and try to bring out its good points.

If every piece is perfect the room becomes a museum and lifeless.

A gentle mixture of furniture expresses life and continuity but it must be a judicious mixture that flows and mixes well. It is a bit like mixing a salade. (I am better at room than salads).

I never think that sticking slavishly to one period is successful, a touch of nostalgia adds charm. One needs light and shade because if every piece is perfect the room becomes a museum and lifeless.

Crossing too many t's and dotting too many i's makes a room look overdone and tiresome. One should create something that fires the imagination without overemphasis.

How lucky I've been to live in such beautiful places and able to make them as I dreamed. I've been lucky. I've adored my houses more than my friends (or husbands).

I like to preserve simplicity rahter than over-polishing. Fashions are changeable. Taste is in realizing the essence of a place.

Scale is of prime importance and I think that oversized scale is better than undersized scale.

I've lived too long and I've lived too well.

The faster you go, the idler you get.

I am obliged to believe certain opinions myself. No man's belief will save me except my own.

Good restaurant design is about achieving equilibrium between the food, service, and design - in effect, telling a complete story.

Feed the alligators and you get bigger alligators.

We seem but to linger in manhood to tell the dreams of our childhood, and they vanish out of memory ere we learn the language.

It was a labor of love and they did really well.

Maybe if I try hard enough, we'll fall into each other and become one single person and we can share our pain instead of carrying it by ourselves.

Acting is a very limited form of expression and those who take it seriously are very limited people. I take it seriously.

False principles, which correspond with the bad as well as with the just aspirations of mankind, are a normal and necessary element in the social life of nations.

Every show on television has a downward trend because there are so many more things to watch. You can only deal with what is the benchmark of a hit series and 'Survivor' clearly remains a hit series.