Good manners are not bred in moments, but in years.

... 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.

If what you seek is Truth, there is one thing you must have above all else.” “I know. An overwhelming passion for it.” “No. An unremitting readiness to admit you may be wrong.

But there was no time to rest on my laurels.

Asleep vision (dreaming) is perception that is not tied down to anything in the real world; waking perception is something like dreaming with a little more commitment to what's in front of you.

I think music should be scary. Music is an exorcism.

Choosing individual stocks without any idea of what you're looking for is like running through a dynamite factory with a burning match. You may live, but you're still an idiot.

Irritation. I'm too old to get angry. Anger, that's an emotion for more serious things

I am just an ordinary Catholic.

Ed Wood served a great purpose - mainly making writers feel better about their work.

He is a fool who thinks by force or skill To turn the current of a woman's will.