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.

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

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

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

No one chair should be isolated.

The cardinal virtue of all beauty is restraint.

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