Strive for perfection in everything. Take the best that exists and make it better. If it doesn't exist, create it. Accept nothing nearly right or good enough

Whatever is rightly done, however humble, is noble. (Quidvis recte factum quamvis humile praeclarum.)

Strive for perfection in everything you do.

The quality will remain when the price is forgotten.

Take the best that exists and make it better.

Accept nothing nearly right or good enough

When it does not exist, design it.

Repentance is mentioned seventy times in the New Testament . . . the Bible says God commands repentance . . . it is a command . . .God says, “Repent! Or perish!

I used up most of my passions and energies during the years I've mentioned, and though I don't talk much about it, the chief thing I've asked from the world since then is to leave me alone.

When I'm by myself, I never play music. I have a lot of it, for a girl, but I don't listen to it a lot. I hate picking music out, I'm not good at it.

An artist feels vulnerable to begin with; and yet the only answer is to recklessly discard more armour.

I need to feel like I'm part of something. I need to feel part of the world when I go to sleep.

Everyone seems to want more form me. I am a thoroughly disappointing girl around. I shall wear a scarlet 'D' upon my bosom for all to see so that they will know not to raise their expectations.

I'm from Chicago. My grandfather was a policeman, and my aunts are married to policemen.

Prayer is asking for guidance. Meditation is listening to it.

A Diogenesian search for an honest person would rarely lead to the author of a memoir.

Always do the right thing, always be exciting, always be encouraging, and always be learning something new.