Everything that has a beginning comes to an end.

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.

People have been marrying and bringing up children for centuries now. Nothing has ever come of it.

If any thing can be predicated as universally true of uncultivated man, it is that he will not labour beyond what is absolutely necessary to maintain his existence.

Novelists are always resisting autobiographical readings of their work, because they know how false those can be.

I can critique the bad; I can take the good, and I can add whatever I want.

I want to make music that I like; not something that I have to make because I think it's going to sell.

In the night all cats are gray.

Love is looking at the same mountains from different angles.

What you and I think about Jesus and how we respond to Him will determine our destiny for all eternity.

My first crush was Hayley Mills when I was a little kid in England. I used to kiss her picture goodnight.

We all need a laugh and I guess you're just the one.