You will soon find that your joy in your home is growing, and that you have a source of happiness within yourself that you had not suspected.

a woman of the world should always be the mistress of sorrow and not its servant. She may have a grief but never a grievance.

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

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.

To conform within rational limits to a given style is no more servile than to pay one's taxes or to write according to the rule of grammar.

Eating outdoors makes for good health and long life and good temper, everyone knows that.

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.