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.

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.

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).

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.

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.

Let our hearts always sing the song of love.

That's a stupid question, ' said Malachi. 'Because he didn't warn him. He didn't warn anyone.''No, it's a philosophical question, ' Kearns corrected him. 'Which makes it useless, not stupid.

When the mind is thinking it is talking to itself.

If you have some respect for people as they are, you can be more effective in helping them to become better than they are.

All the president is, is a glorified public relations man who spends his time flattering, kissing, and kicking people to get them to do what they are supposed to do anyway.

When I started working for Rolling Stone, I became very interested in journalism and thought maybe that's what I was doing, but it wasn't.

Behind every successful man is a proud wife and a surprised mother-in-law.

Good is the enemy of great. That's why so few things become great.

What is the difference between a celebrity and a not so celebrity? It's probably just one film.

The narrow gauge mindset of the past is insufficient for today’s wicked problems. We can no longer play the music as written. Instead, we have to invent a whole new scale.