When you say ‚control freak‘ and ‚OCD‘ and ‚organized,‘ that suggests someone who’s cold in nature, and I’m just not. Like, I’m really open when it comes to letting people in. But I just like my house to be neat, and I don’t like to make big messes that would hurt people.

I come from a poor family, I have seen poverty. The poor need respect, and it begins with cleanliness.

The sun too penetrates into privies, but is not polluted by them.

When I was in my teens I had issues with OCD.

A vacuum is a hell of a lot better than some of the stuff that nature replaces it with.

A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.

When I was a child I asked my mother what homosexuality was about and she said – and this was 100 years ago in Germany and she was very open-minded – ‚It’s like hair color. It’s nothing. Some people are blond and some people have dark hair. It’s not a subject.‘ This was a very healthy attitude.

I don’t read ‚chick lit,‘ fantasy or science fiction but I’ll give any book a chance if it’s lying there and I’ve got half an hour to kill.

A place for everything, everything in its place.

Be careless in your dress if you must, but keep a tidy soul.

Open-minded people tend to be interested in Buddhism because Buddha urged people to investigate things – he didn’t just command them to believe.

There are practical little things in housekeeping which no man really understands.

I have a slight bit of OCD, I think. I’m not walking around flipping light switches. But when I say I’m going to do something, I have to do it.

I think hygiene is so important.

It seems as if an age of genius must be succeeded by an age of endeavour; riot and extravagance by cleanliness and hard work.

Let everyone sweep in front of his own door, and the whole world will be clean.

The sun, too, shines into cesspools and is not polluted.

The best scientist is open to experience and begins with romance – the idea that anything is possible.

Light is the greatest disinfectant in nature and also in organizations.

I love to clean.

Ya know what I do almost every day? I wash. Personal hygiene is part of the package with me.

I’m a control freak. If you’re going to slap my name on something, I would like to control it.

I am the most helpful and open up doors for everyone and I like to share.

Man seems to be the only animal whose food soils him, making necessary much washing and shield-like bibs and napkins. Moles living in the earth and eating slimy worms are yet as clean as seals or fishes, whose lives are one perpetual wash.

After coming into contact with a religious man I always feel I must wash my hands.

I’m pretty clean, hygienic and all that, but sometimes when I come home, I throw my coat over there, take one shoe off here, one shoe off there, but I’m not dirty.

I have rooms full of little dongly things and don’t want any more. Half the little dongly things I’ve got, I don’t even know what gizmo they’re for. More importantly, half the gizmos I’ve got, I don’t know where their little dongly thing is.