true courtesy ... is real kindness kindly expressed.

... 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.

Life is a sage’s university

Love is a weakness which converts even the strongest minds as its slave and makes them sing its tune.

Religion is the opium of the masses.

If you look at the history of other movements, whether Civil Rights or environmental rights, these are all decades-long undertakings.

I am a very lucky guy. I can testify before Congress. I can raise funds. I can raise awareness.

You have a choice in life very often whether you do good or you feel good.

We have a president [Barack Obama] that doesn't know what's happening, and when it comes to the military.

We've got to find a way to protect the process of making musical theater.

Can you not see that it is the INDUSTRIAL SYSTEM and not the boss which must be changed?.

Don't say this is good and that is bad. Drop all discrimination. Accept everything as it is.