You will express yourself in your house whether you want to or not.

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.

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!

There never has been a house so bad that it couldn't be made over into something worthwhile.

A change of attitude changes everything.A bad attitude never leads to a good life.

Always listen to your heart and listen to your gut. Neither of them will ever lie to you.

If taxation without consent is not robbery, then any band of robbers have only to declare themselves a government, and all their robberies are legalized.

A mentor, a 'teacher, ' is like an editor. I absolutely value my editor, who is my teacher.

A genuine revival without joy in the Lord is as impossible as spring without flowers, or day-dawn without light.

The true genius shudders at incompleteness - and usually prefers silence to saying something which is not everything it should be.

It's not easy making a living as a writer, and for many years I worked at a Waterstones in Dublin. It was a good environment for an aspiring writer, with lots of events and authors appearing.

He sought his former accustomed fear of death and did not find it. "Where is it? What death?" There was no fear because there was no death. In place of death there was light.

Who makes and keeps the Jew or the Negro base, who but you, who exclude them from the rights which others enjoy?

Science is interesting, and if you don't agree, you can fvck off.