You will soon find that your joy in your home is growing, and that you have a source of happiness within yourself that you had not suspected.

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 world talks to the mind. Parents speak more intimately

Being a control freakis a sign of a vulnerableself-esteem. The betteryou feel about yourselfthe less you need to controleverything around you.

I can play a lot of things, but I haven't mastered any one. I use music really as a form of raw expression; escape from the real world.

All of my books are about researching. I do all the research and I give it to a writer who can put it in the written word better than I could.

For me, 'choking' is just another term in golf.

It is more difficult ... to rule the King's favorites than for the favorites to rule the King.

From bell to bell, from when my entrance plays and I step through that curtain, people have to wonder what's going on inside that guy's head.

Laughter through tears is my favorite emotion." (Truvey Jones)

There may be a brighter star. But through my eyes the light of you is all I see.

Grandeur and beauty are so very opposite, that you often diminish the one as you increase the other. Variety is most akin to the latter, simplicity to the former.