When I am no longer being copied, I shall know that I am a back number. ... the fear of being copied is often the characteristic of the meager imagination.

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!

The reason you’re going through what you’re going through is to receive the things you’ve been praying for.

Even those who drink until blacking out, those who beat women, are not the exception, hopefully not the norm, trapped somewhere in society in a dark place nobody wants to talk about.

He who commits injustice is ever made more wretched than he who suffers it.

Vanity can create a very cruel space for you if you don't know how to manage it.

What frightens us most in a madman is his sane conversation.

Think of the wonderful circles in which our whole being moves and from which we cannot escape no matter how we try. The circler circles in these circles.

Our children are the only people on whom we can safely take revenge for what was done to us.

Leadership, like responsibility, is a voluntary act.

I go to sleep at night, and I feel like I just dreamed the whole day.

If you're going to teach a child, teach him properly.