don't make each room a different color in a small apartment or you'll make yourself nervous.

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.

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

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

Simplicity, suitability and proportion.

I was not ugly. I might never be anything for men to lose their heads about, but I need never again be ugly. This knowledge was like a song within me. Suddenly it all came together. If you were healthy, fit, and well-dressed, you could be attractive.

The cardinal virtue of all beauty is restraint.