I believe in optimism & plenty of white paint.

I know of nothing more significant than the awakening of men and women throughout our country to the desire to improve their houses. Call it what you will - awakening, development, American Renaissance - it is a most startling and promising condition of affairs.

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

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

It is the personality of the mistress that the home expresses. Men are forever guests in our homes, no matter how much happiness they may find there.

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.

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