I believe in plenty of optimism and white paint.

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 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.

You will express yourself in your house whether you want to or not.

When I am no longer being copied, I shall know that I am a back number. ... the fear of being copied is often the characteristic of the meager imagination.

A house should be a synthesis of comfort, practicality, and tradition.

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