This is the age of the apartment. Not only in the great cities, but in the smaller centers of civilization the apartment has come to stay. ... A decade ago the apartment was considered a sorry makeshift in America, though it has been successful abroad for more years than you would believe.

I am going in now for interior decoration. By that I mean supplying objets d'art and giving advice regarding the decoration of their houses to wealthy persons who do not have the time, inclination, nor culture to do such work for themselves. It is nothing new. Women have done the same thing before.

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

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

When one begins to think of oneself as growing old, one is already old.

a woman of the world should always be the mistress of sorrow and not its servant. She may have a grief but never a grievance.

We cannot do better than to accept the standards of other times, and to adapt them to our uses.