It is not chic to be too chic.

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!

Fashion is about going ahead, not about memory.

Faith can turn the night to light.

Please do make your decisions in life and feel confident that they are right.However, if fate is involved, feel just as confident even if they aren’t.

You say you care about the poor? Tell me their names.

Be ready for when your time comes, you will have that window of opportunity, so seize the moment and capitalise on it.

Your basic person wants to talk about material culture, internet culture. I think about God, cats, nature.

I do not think that a Physician should be admitted into the College till he could bring proofs of his having cured, in his own person, at least four incurable distempers.

I haven't written enough songs to be able to say that I have a system. I've only written a handful.

If you aren't constantly astonished at God's grace in your solitude, there's no way it can happen in public.

Life is the art of being well deceived; and in order that the deception may succeed it must be habitual and uninterrupted.