I started this career because I loved doing houses. I'd done three of my own and I couldn't keep on moving my family all the time, so I decided to decorate other people's homes and buildings.

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.

There’s no more perfect way to fall asleep then having my arms wrapped around her while I breathe in her peaches and cream scent that is mixed with the scent of us and sweat.

The truth is never dressed for the occasion.

Oh deep winter snow, pale executioner, thou who delights in a slow, torturous death.

Getting rid of the dictator is only a first step in establishing a free society. The dictatorship must also be disassembled.

There were some feelings you never forgot.

I wasn't interested in making a lot of money, but I was interested in making a lot of living.

Fortunately, like most children, I had learned what is most valuable, most indispensable for life before school years began, taught by apple trees, by rain and sun, river and woods.

Anthropocentrism, regarding human kind as the very center and pinnacle of existence, is a disease of arrested development.

Coffee is for CLOSERS!

Just believe in yourself and to find spirituality that’s going to carry you. Because all the rest is just fluff.