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

I opened the doors and windows of America, and let the air and sunshine in.

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

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

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

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.

I was born with the courage to live. Only those are unwise who have never dared to be fools.