Clutter is the official language used by corporations to hide their mistakes.

Less is more.

Writing is thinking on paper.

Clutter is the disease of American writing. We are a society strangling in unnecessary words, circular constructions, pompous frills, and meaningless jargon.

Hard writing makes easy reading. Easy writing makes hard reading.

Four basic premises of writing: clarity, brevity, simplicity, and humanity.

When you're ready to stop, stop. If you have presented all the facts and made the point you want to make, look for the nearest exit.

I almost always urge people to write in the first person. ... Writing is an act of ego and you might as well admit it.

Thought is action in rehearsal.

A clear sentence is no accident.

If the nails are weak, your house will collapse. If your verbs are weak and your syntax is rickety, your sentences will fall apart.

Every great soul had a great mentor.

If only life were one long crisis, everyone would be perfect.

I believe we have all been created for greater things than we can comprehend.

Great leaders motivate large groups of individuals to improve the human condition.

I do not exist to impress the world. I exist to live my life in a way that will make me happy.

Luck is not a magical ability or a gift from the gods. Instead, it is a way of thinking and behaving.

Life has all sorts of hills and valleys, and sometimes you don't end up doing what you had your heart set out on, but sometimes that's even better.

Of the cosmic Gods some make the world be, others animate it, others harmonize it, consisting as it does of different elements; the fourth class keep it when harmonized.

No offense to hot girls everywhere- but newsflash- there are hot girls everywhere.