Good liquor is not cheap. Cheap liquor is not good.

The finest thing about a hobby is that you can't do any pretending about it. You either like it or you don't.

There seems to be within all of us an innate yearning to be lifted momentarily out of our own lives into the realm of charm and make believe.

It is just as disastrous to have the wrong accessories in your room, as it is to wear sport shoes with an evening dress.

I always put in one controversial item. It makes people talk.

You don't sell a commodity, you sell joy, gaiety, excitement. You aim at people's hearts, not their minds.

I believe in doing the thing you feel is right. If it looks right, it is right.

No room can be called perfect unless it has real comfort.

Too much of anything is the beginning of a mess.

Eating is really one of your indoor sports. You play three times a day, and it's well worth while to make the game as pleasant as possible.

Salad is never more appetizing than when served in a large wooden bowl.

Don't be afraid to start small, entrepreneurship takes courage to win, and look for quick wins while setting a short and long term vision

A woman whose smile is open and whose expression is glad has a kind of beauty no matter what she wears.

The world does not need tourists who ride by in a bus clucking their tongues. The world as it is needs those who will love it enough to change it, with what they have, where they are.

The Ten Commandments have lost their validity...Conscience is a Jewish invention. It is a blemish like circumcision.

It's here somewhere," I assured him. "Please tell me you haven't lost it already." "We did fall out of the sky, you know," I said indignantly. "It's easy for things to go missing.

I don't worry about how accurately I convey my personality. I learned early on that it's almost impossible to accurately portray yourself.

You fall in love with your heart; you fall out of love with your head.

Pastime with good company I love and shall, until I die. Grudge who list, but none deny! So God be pleased, thus live will I.

As a writer, my main objective is to tell the story urgently - as if whispering it into one ear - and to know the characters intimately.

Never think of failure, for what we think will come about.