We do not take much warning of our own mortality in seeing others die, nor of our own weakness in seeing others break down: we think we feel the springs of life stronger in us.

... there can be no real beauty without neatness and order.

The mind is a phonograph which shall keep and echo the impressions of the past.

Reaching toward perfection in any one thing should lift us higher in all things; it should beget a habit of application and thoroughness.

Every home has its influences, for good or evil, upon humanity at large.

Half a loaf is better than no bread.

it is always easier to see the beginning from the end, than the end from the beginning.

Nothing so breaks the spirit as a load of debt.

fully half of Household miseries arise from a lack of order.

disorder is the slowest worker in the universe.

human honesty has its varieties; so does human ignorance.

Education should be the process of helping everyone to discover his uniqueness." -Leo Buscaglia (1924-1998)

You don't get to become someone's hero unless you are already another's monster.

Your body language shapes who you are

It's not the honors and not the titles and not the power that is of ultimate importance. It's what resides inside.

Don't pass it by - the immediate, the real, the ours, the yours, the novelist's that it waits for.

If you never stop when you wave goodbye you just might find, if you give it time, you will wave hello again.

I never knew what I was doing until I was done.

There's a long history of saying certain people shouldn't be voting. And, unfortunately, the people who are often left out of these conversations are people who are black and brown.

I don't think you can get an idea of what Israel is like until you get here. People don't realize what a great place it is.

Fishing can come as close to doing nothing as anything I can think of.