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.

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.

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!

There never has been a house so bad that it couldn't be made over into something worthwhile.

It’s a bet – the more you Give, the more you will Get.-RVM

It is when we experience God most closely that our hearts burn most passionately to show his compassion to others.

The ways your desire could humiliate you.

A prince or general can best demonstrate his genius by managing a campaign exactly to suit his objectives and his resources, doing neither too much nor too little.

The needs of children during adolescence are particular and acute. They need an opportunity to develop a sense of identity and to maintain the sense of security that emanates from group acceptance.

If you get invited to be part of a team, don't look at it as a burden to get out of, but rather an opportunity to inspire, invigorate, and bring life to the team.

When you are face to face with a difficulty, you are up against a discovery.

There are those who never stretch out the hand for fear it will be bitten. But those who never stretch out the hand will never feel it clasped in friendship.

The third indication that our dreams are dead is peace.

Fancy, like the finger of a clock, Runs the great circuit, and is still at home.