Simplicity, suitability and proportion.

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!

Who is to say that it is not everything else that is the dream?

The number of the devil is not 666.That is only his area code, his number is unlisted.

I would rather believe something and suffer for it, than to slide along into success without opinions.

I'm trying to tell the story in the most clear, concise, and truthful way, taking those everyday words and phrases and capturing them in a way that they become something else.

His eyes are like a telescope. I look into them and I'm transported across the universe to a world I've never been.

I love Australia. I mean it's, how can you not? It's an incredibly beautiful country. I like the people, I like the country, I love it. I mean it's wonderful.

I think most non-Christians who try to be good people are probably better Christians than Christians.

I have had many more close women friends than men, and I've always assumed that comes from the fact that in my family there was such a disproportionate female element.

I never felt I was incapable of succeeding because I felt confident I could always learn what I needed to know.

Paul Ryan's love for Rage Against The Machine is amusing, because he is the embodiment of the machine that our music has been raging against for two decades