I find it soothing to take something wrinkled and make it smooth. It feels anticipatory. It's what I do before a celebration. And nobody bothers me when I'm ironing.

If we could make our house a home, and then make it a sanctuary, I think we could truly find paradise on Earth.

Make your physical surroundings as beautiful as possible.

My mantra is: Let there be happiness in my soul, and let me share it with the world.

We can finish a house, but never a home. Once you fall in love with a house, you find continual pleasures in fixing it up and making innovations that satisfy your creature's comforts.

I feel very strongly we are spiritual beings in a physical body, and we should make our surroundings as beautiful and soulful as possible.