No, I don't take soup. You can't build a meal on a lake.

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!

What is known might sometimes sustain us, but what is unknown will save us.

Actually, " said Jace, "I prefer to think that I'm a liar in a way that's uniquely my own.

You can have whatever you want if you believe in yourself and keep your feet firmly planted in the ground.

It's the nature of hearts to break. It's in their job description. When a heart is doing what it's supposed to be doing, it holds nothing back. And sometimes it gets broken.

My soul was always so full of aspirations, that a God was a necessity to me. I was like a bird with an instinct of migration upon me, and a country to migrate to was as essential as it is to the bird

On the song 'Dangerous,' it feels like a teenager picking up a new instrument and writing something with all of that naive excitement.

I ended up being the governor of a very ag state, Nebraska.

I can't be a wife. I'm not that sort of person. Wives have to compromise all the time.

I can envision observations and experiments that would disprove any evolutionary theory I know.

Numbers of the old people cannot read. Those who can seldom do