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.

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

A home should be an intimate autobiography of the things that you like. One of the things I'm so keen on expressing is that, if you don't do it for yourself, if you're always seeking affirmation from outside, you'll never have a home. It'll just be a house.

The home is the center of your soul; it's a total reflection of your inner life. If you have a dreary home, it means you are dark inside.

You learn to give up what's not working and surround yourself with things you love - not what's correct or proper.

My message is that happiness is the first principle of life. But you must choose it. We all have pain, but suffering is a choice. You can be happier if you make some changes in your life.