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.

[At first sight of the Acropolis:] It's beige! My color!

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.

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

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 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.

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