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.

No, I don't take soup. You can't build a meal on a lake.

Be pretty if you can, be witty if you must, but be gracious if it kills you.

I believe in plenty of optimism and white paint.

[At first sight of the Acropolis:] It's beige! My color!

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.

A house should be a synthesis of comfort, practicality, and tradition.