Rooms should be timeless.

Innovation is often the ability to reach into the past and bring back what is good, what is beautiful, what is useful, what is lasting.

Behind every attractive room there should be a very good reason.

I think everyone must have a first memory of some house, some room, a vivid picture that will remain deep down in one forever.

You can never achieve anything in a house unless you have things that have been passed down and you find a place for them for yourself.

It has not been an easy cross to bear. It has caused considerable confusion. My husband constantly complained about the awkwardness of being married to a woman whom he called Sister.

Even my aunt Joan, hopelessly sentimental about every member of our family, admitted that I was hideous.

Even the simplest wicker basket can become priceless when it is loved and cared for through the generations of a family.

Hope sustains the spirit.

You have to judge everybody on balance, all the positives and all the negatives. In the life of my husband, I think the positives outweigh the negatives.

All I want anyone to get out of my paintings, and all I ever get out of them, is the fact that you can see the whole idea without any confusion…What you see is what you see.

I simply said that I would do everything to help Taiwan to defend itself.

If you need to bring in a business partner, make sure your partner brings along some money.

Don't be anybody's follower, be a student.

If I'm trading bars with somebody, it certainly is not because I have a release coming. Joe Budden prides himself on the music and not the sales aspect.

My personal style is really comfy: flats, tennis shoes, ponytails, no makeup.

You may try your experiment for a week and see how you like it. I think by Saturday night you will find that all play and no work is as bad as all work and no play

If you've been in a symbolic struggle long enough, even when the struggle is over, you don't know it's over.