We cannot do better than to accept the standards of other times, and to adapt them to our uses.

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!

Mind what you say, but mind more closely what you do. For though children close their ears to you, their eyes remain wide open.

Being a 'good' parent is more about the parent, and, less about the 'supposedly-could-have-been-bad' child.

If we perform the romantic repertoire we need more musicians.

Reason is a passion; an instinct, a drive.

If you want grown-ups to recycle, just tell their kids the importance of recycling, and they'll be all over it.

Why are there so many trees in the jungle?

Diffused knowledge immortalizes itself.

Throw in the humor, throw in that personality, try things you wouldn't normally try.

The day I was born, my house burnt down; the day I left home, the Twin Towers burnt down; and I lived in a jungle in India at 15.

All I know is that when I go somewhere, I'm not an autobot. I am a human being. I am not an actor.