Consequently the student who is devoid of talent will derive no more profit from this work than barren soil from a treatise on agriculture.

Whilst we deliberate how to begin a thing, it grows too late to begin it.

We should not speak so that it is possible for the audience to understand us, but so that it is impossible for them to misunderstand us.

We excuse our sloth under the pretext of difficulty.

Write quickly and you will never write well; write well, and you will soon write quickly.

One should aim not at being possible to understand, but at being impossible to misunderstand.

While we are making up our minds as to when we shall begin. the opportunity is lost.

A mediocre speech supported by all the power of delivery will be more impressive than the best speech unaccompanied by such power.

Study depends on the goodwill of the student, a quality that cannot be secured by compulsion.

We must form our minds by reading deep rather than wide.

An evil-speaker differs from an evil-doer only in the want of opportunity.

there is no action kind enough to express heartbreak. I am left shut, the quietest of blossoms.

I feel about exercise the same way that I feel about a few other things: that there is nothing wrong with it if it is done in private by consenting adults.

The opening to reality, as it really is, is beauty.

A person is either a Christian or not; there is no in between state

Ironically, many of people, including Osama bin Laden and the mujahedeen, were, in fact, nourished by the United States in the early eighties in its efforts to drive the Soviets out of Afghanistan.

I'm frightened all the time. But I never let it stop me. Never!

It is always sad to write about prejudice, but sometimes when we see it being played out in the lives of fictional characters, we can recognize it in our own lives.

It's all about new techniques -- simplifying old techniques, and consolidating steps. Making things go faster, but not worse.

With big productions, you can sometimes get lost with the terminology and all the different departments.

I 'gin to be aweary of the sun, And wish th' estate o' th' world were now undone.