human honesty has its varieties; so does human ignorance.

... 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.

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

I'd like to do 'My Best Friend's Wedding, ' 'Pretty Woman, ' Meg Ryan type stuff. Romantic comedies. I'd love to do some action stuff as well.

A merchant, it has been said very properly, is not necessarily the citizen of any particular country.

The essence of the Way is detachment.

You should have fun when you're acting. That's when magic happens.

Enemies are created, not born.

If you follow your heart, you're going to find that it is often extremely inconvenient.

Until he has been part of a cause larger than himself, no man is truly whole.

Poets like Shakespeare know more about poetry than any $25 an hour man.

All I know is, if we don't eat soon I'm going to chew off a limb. And I can't guarentee it'll be mine.