"Everything in our surroundings speak for us, and if we accept living with vulgar design we must pay for it. Carling about aesthetics increases your sensitivity. The more we care about the small details, the more in tune to beauty we become, and the more we realize how seemingly insignificant items affects us."

- Alexandra Stoddard

"You can tell a great deal about a person by visiting his or her kitchen."

- Alexandra Stoddard

"Set up systems that help you keep the bedroom neat, so that even when you are tired or rushed, you can keep the special place calm and uncluttered. Have a place for everything so that when you undress you are relaxed."

- Alexandra Stoddard

"Beauty, like love, makes us happy, but we have to be keenly receptive to the seduction."

- Alexandra Stoddard

"The world is extremely interesting to a joyful soul."

- Alexandra Stoddard