You can't take it with you. There are no pockets in a shroud.

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!

A corner is important. It provides privacy and an anchor and lets you exist independently of the room.

A man must be prepared to face life, as well as death, there's no escape from either.

Be careful whom you confine in.

A single radio post still heard him. The only link between him and the world was a wave of music, a minor modulation. Not a lament, no cry, yet purest of sounds that ever spoke despair.

The here-and-now is no mere filling of time but a filling of time with God.

I had only one superstition. I made sure to touch all the bases when I hit a home run.

No matter how smart or well-educated you are, you can be deceived.

We don't build a record. We're taking a picture of it. We're not building an image; we're capturing an image.

At sea, I learned how little a person needs, not how much.

If we desire to judge justly, we must persuade ourselves that none of us is without sin.