Light, air and comfort - these three things I must always have in a room.

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.

[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.

When you become the light, there will be no darkness.

Abounding sin is the terror of the world, but abounding grace is the hope of mankind.

For the task assigned them Men aren't smart enough or sly Any rogue can blind them With a clever lie.

When I'm writing, I am concentrating almost wholly on concrete detail: the color a room is painted, the way a drop of water rolls off a wet leaf after a rain.

Of all that is written, I love only what a person hath written with his blood.

I couldn't help but see; I wasn't blind. I couldn't help but admire; I wasn't dead

To me, beauty is a lived thing.

Slang in a woman's mouth is not obscene, it only sounds so.

i'm sorry she never got her miracle. she did get her miracle, Landon, her miracle was you.

Jazz comes from a tradition where it swings. Swing was the main ingredient of jazz. And once it loses the swing...well, that's it.