Preventive Maintenance: Don't start today by doing yesterday's work.

Being organized will give you more free time, contribute to a cheerful nature, and add to the peace and security of your home.

Even an organized person has days that aren't efficient and well-managed.

Decluttering tip: Ask yourself do I need this? How long has it been since I used this? Do I need so many?

Remember the law of the home: Junk expands to fill the space available, plus one room.

I have been housekeeping for 31 years and I learned something new on every page!

You had better be ready to change your mind when needed or your mind will change you.

Sometimes you need to live with a painting for a while. Starting a painting can be easy, but finishing it... that's the skill of the painter, how you finally know when it's done.

I look on life as a joyous adventure.

It's not life in the present moment that is intolerable; the pain we are avoiding has already happened. We are living in reverse.

I have a problem with the blatant celebrity exhibitionism that happens in this business and being sold purely as a brand.

I have walked into the palaces of kings and queens and into the houses of presidents. And much more. But I could not walk into a hotel in America and get a cup of coffee, and that made me mad.

Being a monarchist, and fawning over those 'above' you, you must naturally despise those 'below' or on the same socioeconomic level as yourself, because that is how hierarchy worship works.

How can you know it's the best, if you don't learn about anything else?

May you find in yourself enough patience to endure and enough simplicity to have faith.

Parents sometimes make not those allowances for youth, which, when young, they wished to be made for themselves.