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Children are a house's enemy. They don't mean to be - they just can't help it. It's their enthusiasm, their energy, their naturally destructive tendencies.

Home is, I suppose just a child's idea. A house at night, and a lamp in the house. A place to feel safe.

I think homes should reflect the individuals and their individual taste rather than someone else's.

Children are not casual guests in our home. They have been loaned to us temporarily for the purpose of loving them and instilling a foundation of values on which their future lives will be built.

If your kids want to paint their bedrooms, as a favor to me, let 'em do it.

People commonly educate their children as they build their houses, according to some plan they think beautiful, without considering whether it is suited to the purposes for which they are designed.

After joining as a youth trainee at 16 from school, in my first two or three years the club was on a financial downward spiral and there was none of the new sparkling kit and the sparkling conditions that the kids get now.

Do you think it is only a little thing to possess a house from which lovely things can be seen?

Encourage good music and art and literature in your homes. Homes that have a spirit of refinement and beauty will bless the lives of your children forever.

Our house is a constant mayhem of music, noise, socializing and business. It vibrates life, as a house should.