Where you come from now is much less important than where you're going. More and more of us are rooted in the future or the present tense as much as in the past. And home, we know, is not just the place where you happen to be born. It's the place where you become yourself.
Copy QuoteHave nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful.
Copy Quote View & ShareA house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.
Copy Quote View & ShareLove begins at home, and it is not how much we do... but how much love we put in that action.
Copy Quote View & ShareTo be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition, the end to which every enterprise and labor tends, and of which every desire prompts the prosecution.
Copy Quote View & ShareI kiss the soil as if I placed a kiss on the hands of a mother, for the homeland is our earthly mother. I consider it my duty to be with my compatriots in this sublime and difficult moment.
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