It does not matter whether one paints a picture, writes a poem, or carves a statue - simplicity is the mark of a master-hand.

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.

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

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

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

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.

This is the age of the apartment. Not only in the great cities, but in the smaller centers of civilization the apartment has come to stay. ... A decade ago the apartment was considered a sorry makeshift in America, though it has been successful abroad for more years than you would believe.