Art is a by-product of an honest and successful attempt to do something well.

In a conversation, keep in mind that you're more interested in what you have to say than anyone else is.

It isn't working that's so hard, it's getting ready to work.

Most of us aren't that interested in getting rich- we just don't want to get poor.

There's nothing people like better than being asked an easy question. For some reason, we're flattered when a stranger asks us where Maple Street is in our hometown and we can tell him.

Death is a distant rumor to the young.

...most of its lifetime a cake of soap is too small.

Soap, like people, shouldn't smell like anything.

In the futile attempts we all make to tidy up our lives and our surroundings, nothing is more difficult than throwing out a book.

American closets are filled with once-worn clothes that got a bad review from a friend on their first appearance.