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

... 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.

disorder is the slowest worker in the universe.

human honesty has its varieties; so does human ignorance.

in a Home it must be order or ruin. Order is to the house as morality to the human being - a sheet-anchor.

When I Am Within, I Am Never Without.

He never went to war, yet he emerged from the smog and shadows victorious.

You must create the right kind of dream, the sober, adult kind of magic: illusion born from disillusion.

My greatest concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are concerned with your failure.

There's an inherent thing in me where, if things are going too smooth, I'll sabotage the hell out of them just to make the music more of a sanctuary.

A dimple in the chin a devil within.

I feel a sense of responsibility," said Jordan. "And where is this feeling located? In your pants, perhaps?

Children must receive music instruction as naturally as food, with as much pleasure as they derive from a ball game, and this must happen from the beginning of their lives.

Please is frail like a dewdrop, while it laughs it dies. But sorrow is strong and abiding. Let sorrowful love wake in your eyes.

I think of architecture as a piece of clothing to wrap around human beings