Reaching toward perfection in any one thing should lift us higher in all things; it should beget a habit of application and thoroughness.

... 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.

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.

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

Genius - the pursuit of madness.

You are what you think. You are what you go for. You are what you do! You are what you think you are.

Before a long-haul flight, buy yourself a cheap, big, comfortable pillow. It makes a huge difference.

Ah me, thou Destiny, Giver of evil gifts.

Well, I'm having a good time. Which makes me feel guilty too. How very English.

I'm a character actress, plain and simple... Who can worry about a career? Have a life. Movie stars have careers - actors work, and then they don't work, and then they work again.

My father was a statesman, I'm a political woman. My father was a saint. I'm not.

I like when my face tingles, when the hair on the back of my neck stands up.

Sometimes being a good friend means saying nothing.

Kat laughed. 'Who wants to live forever?' Kish put his hand up. 'For the record, I do.' Sin scowled at him. 'Then why do you irritate me so often?' Suicidal tendencies are inherent in my species?