simplicity is a thing beautiful in itself, like clear light.

... 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.

Define success by your terms, not by other people’s standards.

He looked rather pleasantly, like a blonde satan.

She faces him, trying to take a breath that's long and level, trying to pull all the slopping emotions back inside so he won't see them in her face.

Wagner's music is better than it sounds.

We must never violate principles. We must never initiate violence. And we should never harm the innocent. But at some point, unless governments back off, we have to stop being nice.

Look at The Rock's competition! Look at him! It looks like a big monkey came down here, took a crap, and out came Mankind!

Sometimes a writer, like an acrobat, must try a trick that is too much for him.

There are living systems; there is no'living matter'.

Like Broadway, the novel, and G-d, feminism has been declared dead many times

Whatever happens I have had these blissful, perfect moments and they are worth living for.