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

I believe in optimism & plenty of white paint.

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.

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

My business is to preach to you the beauty of suitability.

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

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