“I recommend you dispose of anything that does not fall into one of three categories: currently in use, needed for a limited period of time, or must be kept indefinitely.”

The question of what you want to own is actually the question of how you want to live your life.

When deciding how to spend your time, remember: Don’t trade an activity you’d love to pursue for a reward you don’t value.

I have yet to see a house that lacked sufficient storage. The real problem is that we have far more than we need or want.

A joy-filled home is like your own personal art museum

There is no need to buy dividers or any other gadget. You can solve your storage problems with things you already have in the house. The most common item I use is an empty shoebox.

If you live with your family, first clearly define separate storage spaces for each family member.

The real tragedy is to live your entire life without anything that brings you joy and never even realize it.

Letting go is even more important than adding.

Believe what your heart tells you when you ask, Does this spark joy?

Tidying your physical space allows you to tend to your psychological space.

Although we can get to know ourselves better by sitting down and analyzing our characteristics or by listening to others’ perspectives on us, I believe that tidying is the best way.

A person’s awareness and perspective on his or her own lifestyle are far more important than any skill at sorting, storing, or whatever.

It is only when you put your house in order that your furniture and decorations come to life.

I begin my course with these words: Tidying is a special event. Don’t do it every day.

Activity clutter comes from the things we do that take up precious time and sap our energy but don’t make a meaningful difference to our personal, professional, or even company’s mission.

The essence of effective storage is this: designate a spot for every last thing you own.

What is meant, however, is a higher category than being: the power of maintaining being.

People who can’t stay tidy can be categorized into just three types: ‘the can’t throw it away type’, ‘the can’t put it back type’, and ‘the first-two-combined’ type.

The serious artist must be as open as nature. Nature does not give all of herself in a paragraph. She is rugged and not set apart into discreet categories.

Some great people are leaders and others are more lucky, in the right place at the right time. I’d put myself in the latter category. But I’d never call myself a normal designer of anything.

Voices are like fingerprints, from Cagney to Bogart. They never lost it. My voice is instrumental in categorizing me.

Depression – it falls into that small category of things like combat that, if you haven’t been in it, you can say you can imagine it all you like. But it’s truly different.

I’m the only talk show host, I think, if there’s such a category in, what’s called, the book of records, to have a guest die while we were taping the show, yeah.

I don’t like being categorized as a rapper. I make music; I don’t just rap.