"There are a few things I've learned in life: always throw salt over your left shoulder, keep rosemary by your garden gate, plant lavender for good luck, and fall in love whenever you can." - Alice Hoffman, Practical Magic
"Flowers are those little colorful beacons of the sun from which we get sunshine when dark, somber skies blanket our thoughts." -Dodinsky
"All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother" - Abraham Lincoln
"A horse is the projection of peoples' dreams about themselves - strong, powerful, beautiful - and it has the capability of giving us escape from our mundane existence." Pam Brown
“Feet, why do I need them if I have wings to fly?” ― Frida Kahlo
"There is a role and function for beauty in our time." Tadao Ando
"Yeah we all shine on, like the moon, and the stars, and the sun." John Lennon
"A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials." Lucius Annaeus Seneca
“For in every adult there dwells the child that was, and in every child there lies the adult that will be.” ― John Connolly, T
"A home is not a mere transient shelter: its essence lies in the personalities of the people who live in it." ~H. L. Mencken
A man's character always takes its hue, more or less, from the form and color of things about him. Frederick Douglass
"We all become great explorers during our first few days in a new city, or a new love affair." Mignon McLaughlin
"Spring is when life's alive in everything." —Christina Rossetti
"Each spring in New York, DIFFA's DINING BY DESIGN debuts in a spectacular display of cuisine, creativity, and glamour" diffa.org
"We are tied to the ocean. And when we go back to the sea, whether it is to sail or to watch - we are going back from whence we came." John F. Kennedy
"In Morocco, it's possible to see the Atlantic and the Mediterranean at the same time." Tahar Ben Jelloun
"Comfort rules. You want to be able to sit in a good chair comfortably for a few hours and be able to talk and enjoy a glass of wine. There's nothing worse than sitting in an uncomfortable chair." Amanda Pays
"People like to eat outside here. In the summer our picnic tables are full and people eat their fish with cold beer from the Legion hall." Mimi Henson
"Design is not making beauty; beauty emerges from selection, affinities, integration, love." -Louis Kahn
"St. Patrick's Day is an enchanted time -- a day to begin transforming winter's dreams into summer's magic." Adrienne Cook