What is the goal? A house that is like the life that goes with it, a house that gives us beauty as we understand it- and beauty of a nobler kind that we may grow to understand.

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

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

Simplicity, suitability and proportion.

I believe in plenty of optimism and white paint.

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.

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