I can't paint. I can't write. I can't sing. But I can decorate and run a house, and light it, and heat it, and have it like a living thing.

I am going to make everything around me beautiful - that will be my life.

Be pretty if you can, be witty if you must, but be gracious if it kills you.

I believe in optimism & plenty of white paint.

It is the personality of the mistress that the home expresses. Men are forever guests in our homes, no matter how much happiness they may find there.

The cardinal virtue of all beauty is restraint.

You will express yourself in your house whether you want to or not.

I was born with the courage to live. Only those are unwise who have never dared to be fools.

What is the goal? A house that is like the life that goes with it, a house that gives us beauty as we understand it- and beauty of a nobler kind that we may grow to understand.

Light, air and comfort - these three things I must always have in a room.

[At first sight of the Acropolis:] It's beige! My color!

What is more important to a library than anything else -- than everything else -- is the fact that it ex

You send a girl to school in order to make friends - the right sort.

YOU are YOU! Know YOU can! YOU must not be afraid because God has a prosperous future plan for YOU! YOU got to know YOU! Guess who you are? YOU are a blessing to all others especially me!

What are you thinking?” I ask.“That I wish this was my home, too.” I have nothing to say to this, so I kiss him instead.

Romance lives by repetition, and repetition converts an appetite into an art.

Before we set our hearts too much upon anything let us examine how happy they are who already possess it.

The falsest of all philosophies is that which, under the pretext of delivering men from the embarrassment of their passions, counsels idleness and the abandonment and neglect of themselves.

In terms of my own film experience, I'm definitely used to morose and very heavy, heavy dramas.

How come princesses always have some huge flaw that can cause their downfall?

I guess the only thing to do now is meet his parents. I'm sure they're decent people. I mean they gotta be if they named their son Gaylord Focker.