don't make each room a different color in a small apartment or you'll make yourself nervous.

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!

Walter Pater said that all the arts aspire to the condition of music, but I’ve always felt that music aspires to the condition of words.

There is magic everywhere around you, but most people are too busy being grownup to notice it.

None of us are meant to be or do anything. We decide what we're going to be.

Don't halloo until you're out of the wood.

Living composers writing for big band are very few and far between. There are not a lot of them, and I have a talent for doing it. I am zeroing in on what I do best.

American diplomacy is easy on the brain but hell on the feet.

True change is within; leave the outside as it is.

Walls work both ways. They keep people out...but they keep people in, too.

It definitely deserved an Oscar, but not a Golden Globe.

I focus my energies more so on staying original.