What is true of the individual will be true of the whole family; what is true of the family will be true of the community, and of the state.

... 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.

I am beautifully on my own. I am free. At the end of the day, we should be our own heroes. Our own savers. Our own heroes.

Viktor Frankl's "Man's Search for Meaning" is the only personal development book that does not mention it.

I decided to write the book I wanted to read

She soothed and solaced and celebrated destroying her gift by maiming it to suit her hearers.

I always wanted to live in a haunted house.

Each year, I say I'm going to go to school next year. It's inevitable that I'll end up getting my education.

I'm 57, I can't look like a 30-year-old. You try to hold age at bay, but there comes a point when you just have to give up gracefully.

I think we are trying to improve for next week. Period. I do not think anybody is thinking about anything else.

Prayer consists simply in giving to God all the careful attention of which the soul is capable.