To not dare is to have already lost. We should seek out ambitious, even unrealistic projects, because things only happen when we dream.

I have no recipe for how to combine things. But you must be sincere. And if you are, strangely, it will succeed.

Unless you have a feeling for that secret knowledge that modest things can be more beautiful than anything expensive, you will never have style.

I love America, and I love American women. But there is one thing that deeply shocks me - American closets. I cannot believe one can dress well when you have so much.

For a house to be successful, the objects in it must communicate with one another, respond to and balance one another

Minimalism in interior design has become a caricature. Everywhere you find shops or hotels with an ambience that makes you feel like you are in a refrigerator.

Style is to see beauty in modesty.

A thousand half-loves must be forsaken to take one whole heart home.

You can do pretty much anything you want in this world, and it's not all that difficult - you just have to ignore the people who tell you that you need to go this way, and it's the only way.

Do not run away; let go. Do not seek; for it will come when least expected.

During the eighties and nineties, people wanted to be chic, elegant, bourgeois.

Well I was on the one hand, the more I played the guitar the more I began to really love the guitar and to love virtually any kind of music that anybody played well on guitar.

Sudden and slashing reforms are as perilous as sudden and slashing surgery.

When religion controls government, political liberty dies; and when government controls religion, religious liberty perishes.

Each life makes its own immitation of immortality.

As an experimental psychologist, I have been trained not to believe anything unless it can be demonstrated in the laboratory on rats or sophomores.

If my results are not good I will lose my job.