When one begins to think of oneself as growing old, one is already old.

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!

Men were foolish and were made only so that they should die, while mountains and rivers went on for ever and did not notice the passing of time.

There are many ways your intuition can get a message to you. You will start to pick them up once you learn to quiet the mental chatter.

Great things are accomplished by talented people who believe they will accomplish them.

It's my favorite role - being a mom.

So ultimately I am looking for a story that has some value and is important and is entertaining.

Taking back our light from those we’ve projected it onto opens the door to an unimaginable future.

You're pregnant? Congratulations, the world needs another mindless, semiliterate consumer.

Teach and practice, practice and teach - that is all we have; that is all we are good for; that is all we ever ought to do.

You don't attack the grunts of Vietnam; you blame the theory behind the war. Nobody who fought in that war was at fault. It was the war itself that was at fault.

We didn't have a drill so he would burn the holes through the wood with a metal rod that he heated up in a fire. Can you imagine an ordinary crew doing that?