Control, edit and distill.

Remember, color is not just color, but mood, temperature and structure.

In design, Mother Nature is our best teacher.

Training the eye is the most important way to gain an appreciation and understanding of good design in busienss management.

Interiors speak! Rooms emphasize whether one exists or lives, and there is a great difference between the two!

The easiest approach to any strong color is to use a lot of it, thus unifying a room. However, beware of too many strong colors unless you happen to like living on a battlefield.

Too many bright colors make for congestion. Too many bright colors need, above all, contrast in value, to eliminate vibration.

There is nothing more trite than a period room imposed on a contemporary setting.

Better rooms better furniture, better objects d'art can only be created for a society interested in living - not existing.

Good design is forever.

I wonder if any element of interior design is more personal than color? Nothing can more quicly reveal aspect of personality and character than the choice - or absence - of color.

I don't believe time heals. I don't want it to. If I heal, doesn't that mean I've accepted the world without her?

Pay attention, behavior speaks… While preacher are telling you to pray for abundance, they’re passing around a basket.

The world is bad but not without hope. It is only hopeless when you look at it from an ideal viewpoint.

I mean Afghanistan is a very rugged, complicated country.

If you're trying to connect to people with music - it's more of an outward process and a lot of times musicians can be very inward.

You can tell when you have crossed the frontier into Germany because of the badness of the coffee.

One must flee those places where life throbs and seek out lonely spots untouched by human hand in order to lift the magic veil of nature

The worst thing that being an artist could do to you would be that it would make you slightly unhappy constantly.

I don't ever tell people what to do! Even if it seems and feels that way sometimes, I don't think I should tell a person how to spend their money. I try not to tell people what to read.

America is the greatest nation in the history of the world. There's nothing like America.