Do not, therefore, say "I feel nauseous, " unless you are sure you have that effect on others.

...when a sentence is made stronger, it usually becomes shorter. Thus, brevity is a by-product of vigor.

A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts.

If you don't know how to pronounce a word, say it loud!

Make definite assertions. Avoid tame, colorless, hesitating, non-committal language.

To acquire style, begin by affecting none.

None are so fallible as those who are sure they're right.

Vigorous writing is concise.

Instead of announcing what you are about to tell is interesting, make it so.

Rich, ornate prose is hard to digest, generally unwholesome, and sometimes nauseating.

The approach to style is by way of plainness, simplicity, orderliness, sincerity.

You don't need faith to walk on the riverbank, you need faith to walk on water.

As a powerful creator, your potential success only awaits the genesis of thought.

I will always try to turn sights and sounds into words. I will always try to shape words into my singing poems.

You thought you were being made into a decent little cottage but He is building a palace. He intends to come & live in it Himself

I'd like to be a piano player.

Fashionable dances as now carried on are revolting to every feeling of delicacy and propriety and are fraught with the greatest danger to millions.

Things are never so bad they can't be made worse.

The tools used by the surgeons must be adapted to the task and where the human brain is concerned they cannot be too refined.

I don't look for signs. But when things happen, I say, 'OK, something must be right.' Or 'OK, something must be wrong.'

You can't have a strong nation without strong values, and no one is born with strong values. They have to be taught to you in strong families and reinforced in you in strong communities.