The grossest form of this injury of the body to ornament it, is in tattooing. Next, the piercing the ear all around its rim, piercing the nose and the lips to introduce rings or bars of jewelry.

... 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.

Amé, fuí amado, el sol acarició mi faz.¡Vida, nada me debes! ¡Vida, estamos en paz!I loved, I was loved, the sun stroked my face.Life, you owe me nothing! Life, we are at peace!

The transition of nothing-to-something is a natural one, not requiring any agent.

Realize the joy there is in trying to accomplish the impossible.

The most important people is to pick people who like to write software and who are good at... good developers like working with each other. And they... they reinforce each other's skills.

I was this wide-eyed kid wanting to see everything and do everything

It's been argued that of all the animals humans have domesticated, the horse is the most important to our history. For thousands of years, horses were our most reliable mode of transportation.

Oh, what lies there are in kisses.

If you don't want your tax dollars to help the poor, then stop saying that you want a country based on Christian values. Because you don't!

Misuse of the Koran to provide legitimacy for violence is common, particularly in Europe, where terrorists tend not to be well-educated Muslims.

I don't feel any part of religion. I think the Bible is God's gift of salvation that He gave me because I trusted in Him when I was six year-old. It was a gift and I didn't earn it.