Diane von Furstenberg Quotes

If I were asked to name the chief benefit of the house, I should say: the house shelters day-dreaming, the house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.

It is nice finding that place where you can just go and relax.

I just go in my back garden. It's the only place where people don't come and bother you.

I like to escape to hotels.

It's amazing living alone. I'm very lucky. It's like a refuge.

People ask me where I go to get away, and I say 'Home.'

Home, more than anything, means warmth and bed.

All I want to do is get me a piece of land someplace where I can say, 'This is home,' and I got nobody bothering me.

There's nothing I like better than going to my apartment, closing the door, cooking my little dinner for one and just tuning out. My apartment really is my haven. It's a nest where I go to heal.

All good hotels tend to lead people to do things they wouldn't necessarily do at home.

There is just something about starting your day with something luxurious like a bath.

'Safe Harbor' is a state of mind... it's the place - in reality or metaphor - to which one goes in times of trouble or worry. It can be a friendship, marriage, church, garden, beach, poem, prayer, or song.

When life catches up with us, we all need space to dream and indulge, so I have created my own special range of bath & beauty loveliness to help you find your happy place.

Having a home away from the media glare is important to world-class athletes.

I am not bound for any public place, but for ground of my own where I have planted vines and orchard trees, and in the heat of the day climbed up into the healing shadow of the woods.

I think for me, home needs to be a sanctuary. I need to feel like I've escaped the day when I get home.

There were no jewelry hidden. Walt wanted this atmosphere: They were supposed to live here, they've been outside somewhere, but they could come back at any minute and catch us.

The only place I can go where I'm not mobbed is my house.

I found that quiet place in my home that is my place of refuge. I don't care if you got kids or if you are married. You got to find that one place that is your everybody-off-limit place: unless this place is on fire, or you need to go to the emergency room, don't disturb me. You can go to this place and cleanse, meditate, let God speak to you.

You could never hide yourself in these places - in Mies's Farnsworth house, for example. That was a mistake of Modernism. People need places to hide from each other, too. You need everything.

The real luxury travel of the modern age is not through space; it's through time.

I feel happy and secure when I'm on my bed with a good book... I forget everything which is terrible in our world.

The world at large doesn't always make sense to me, and there are safe havens. Linda Manz in 'Out of the Blue' is one of them.

I love my creature comforts.

How do you design it so that people can form a space of their own, and feel quiet and contemplative?