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

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.

It is not chic to be too chic.

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

You can't take it with you. There are no pockets in a shroud.

I believe in plenty of optimism and white paint.

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