Casual elegance is all about the mix.

Just as a picture is created by adding a dab of paint at a time, the best arrangements are created a step at a time, with pauses so you can step back and see the overall effect.

Decorating is like music. Harmony is what we constantly strive for. At home, we want a peaceful atmosphere where the objects are the notes and nothing is off-key.

An empty room is a story waiting to happen, and you are the author.

Take the time and do some small thing that will be noticed and remembered. Choose your objects carefully, and buy only what you love.

Decorating is like math, a game of adding and subtracting.

... our objects, bibelots, whatnots, and knickknacks-say the most about who we are. They are as honest as a diary.

What we remember most about rooms we like is the 'atmosphere.'

All the necessary elements of a room should not arrive on installation day. Room should always be left for the things we will acquire...the objects we cannot live without.

There are two things that make a room timeless: a sense of history and a piece of the future.

Decorating is a footnote to real life for me, a means to an end: Living well.

I look away, but we've caught each other. And I know this wasn't just a ghost story to him, even if it was to the others.

We live in fortunate times in which we have only the irritant of terrorism instead of world wars to worry about

As long as I have the support and respect of my teammates, that's all I can ask for.

Motherhood: All love begins and ends there.

Sure, I rose the wrong way today, I have had such damn'd ill luck every way.

We painted a beautiful picture, but we just didn't finish it. Finishing is the difference between a beautiful picture and a masterpiece.

When modern writers gave up telling stories, they gave up the greatest thing we had.

I say to our enemies: We are coming. God may have mercy on you, but we won't

Philosophers are capable of almost endless enjoyment of mutual misunderstanding.

We can pray perfectly when we are out in the mountains or on a lake and we feel at one with nature. Nature speaks for us or rather speaks to us. We pray perfectly.