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

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

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.

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

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

Never, under any circumstance, do I touch soup, as I do not believe in building a meal on a lake.