It is much easier to try one's hand at many things than to concentrate one's powers on one thing.

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.

These hands are unlike any otherstrongbut gentlecaringlovingand understanding

Strong advocacy for education, health care and worker safety will be indispensable if they are to get their fair share of President Bush's austere budget for the next fiscal year.

I'm not involved in politics, and I've never had any political role. I've never been in office. I've never taken any public administrative jobs.

I call myself an addicted organizer.

Johnny once described our relationship by saying we were as close as two people could be without being married.

Green calm below, blue quietness above.

I think you learn how to write by reading an enormous amount, so then your memory is stocked with various constructions, various ways of shaping a paragraph, shaping a chapter.

It is better to will the good than to know the truth.

Architecture is a social act and the material theater of human activity.

When people look at a photograph, they believe it... My photographs crawl along that edge. I document the world, but from my own biased point of view.