I know of nothing more significant than the awakening of men and women throughout our country to the desire to improve their houses. Call it what you will - awakening, development, American Renaissance - it is a most startling and promising condition of affairs.

Light, air and comfort - these three things I must always have in a room.

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

To conform within rational limits to a given style is no more servile than to pay one's taxes or to write according to the rule of grammar.

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

The cardinal virtue of all beauty is restraint.

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.