A gentle mixture of furniture expresses life and continuity but it must be a judicious mixture that flows and mixes well. It is a bit like mixing a salade. (I am better at room than salads).

In restoring a house one must first realize its period, feel its personality and try to bring out its good points.

If every piece is perfect the room becomes a museum and lifeless.

I never think that sticking slavishly to one period is successful, a touch of nostalgia adds charm. One needs light and shade because if every piece is perfect the room becomes a museum and lifeless.

Crossing too many t's and dotting too many i's makes a room look overdone and tiresome. One should create something that fires the imagination without overemphasis.

How lucky I've been to live in such beautiful places and able to make them as I dreamed. I've been lucky. I've adored my houses more than my friends (or husbands).

I like to preserve simplicity rahter than over-polishing. Fashions are changeable. Taste is in realizing the essence of a place.

Scale is of prime importance and I think that oversized scale is better than undersized scale.

In choosing a colour one must realize that it changes in different aspects.

I've lived too long and I've lived too well.

I'm beginning to think that to hope isn't the same as to expect something. To hope is to believe that life is an acceptable chaos.

God’s manifest His mighty power, when we absolute depend on Him.

i want to become as big as my dreams are...

Every job is incredibly different, and I love it because you're picking up skill sets and experiences. It's the university of life.

Words may show a man's wit but actions his meaning.

This is the wonderful thing about the pure in heart--they do see God.

I read the landscape to help me through, to know what's come before me there, to find my footing in time.

I am convinced that we have a degree of delight, and that no small one, in the real misfortunes and pain of others

Then people started using it more and more and it became the most downloaded software on the internet.

I'm very rarely interested in genres. As long as I feel I can put my DNA out there in the ideology, it works for me.