No room can be called perfect unless it has real comfort.

The finest thing about a hobby is that you can't do any pretending about it. You either like it or you don't.

There seems to be within all of us an innate yearning to be lifted momentarily out of our own lives into the realm of charm and make believe.

It is just as disastrous to have the wrong accessories in your room, as it is to wear sport shoes with an evening dress.

I always put in one controversial item. It makes people talk.

You don't sell a commodity, you sell joy, gaiety, excitement. You aim at people's hearts, not their minds.

I believe in doing the thing you feel is right. If it looks right, it is right.

Too much of anything is the beginning of a mess.

Eating is really one of your indoor sports. You play three times a day, and it's well worth while to make the game as pleasant as possible.

Salad is never more appetizing than when served in a large wooden bowl.

The more mirror-minded you become, the more your home will reflect shining charm!

You can't rise as a class. You have to rise individually. It's what many of the civil rights-era people don't understand.

Is it surprising that modern English land law should resemble a chaos rather than a system?

When love becomes labored we welcome an act of infidelity towards ourselves to free us from fidelity.

We are selling ourselves very short by funneling our energies into what the traditional perception is of academic and monetary success.

And step by step, since time began, I see the steady gain of man.

Poetry contains almost all you need to know about life.

I never feel more useful than when I'm making my kids a bowl of soup.

My brain is only a receiver, in the Universe there is a core from which we obtain knowledge, strength and inspiration. I have not penetrated into the secrets of this core, but I know that it exists.

I don't spend a lot of time judging anyone I play. Even if their function in the script is to be the villain, I concentrate on what their perspective of the events is. Not even to justify them.

From my earliest youth, I have known that while one is obliged to plan with care the stages of one's journey, one is entitled to dream, and keep dreaming, of its destination.