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

... 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 think....you still have no idea. The effect you can have.

Books give not wisdom where none was before. But where some is there reading makes it more.

When a woman isn't beautiful, people always say, 'You have lovely eyes, you have lovely hair.'

She's like a hurricane on crystal meth.

Everybody says "love you" to each other all the time. It's this lovely little safe world.

Never write about a place until you're away from it, because that gives you perspective

When you go to a power place, if you are receptive, if you are able to quiet your thoughts and concentrate, a lot of that power can enter into you.

Prose pretends to be straightforward in its application to the truth, but truth itself is a dissembler. Poetry, much more honest, knows the deception can't be overcome.

Credit cards are the WORST investment that you can make.

Maybe it's your obligation to use your celebrity for more than just your new BMW. I use mine to make people smile.