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

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.

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

To conform within rational limits to a given style is no more servile than to pay one's taxes or to write according to the rule of grammar.

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.

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.

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