It is nonetheless the best usage that decides the meaning of words.

Whenever we can make 25 words do the work of 50, we halve the area in which looseness and disorganization can flourish.

No one should ever have to read a sentence twice because of the way it is put together.

The good oxymoron, to define it by a self-illustration, must be a planned inadvertency.

The choosing among words is made by every user of the language, and not exclusively by professional speakers and writers.

Prose is not necessarily good because it obeys the rules of syntax, but it is fairly certain to be bad if it ignores them.

We doubt ourselves. It's not about lowering the self-esteem. It's about increasing the self-confidence by letting the risk factor do its part

You look around at the people in your life, one by one, choosing to hold on to the ones who make you stronger and better, and letting go of the ones who don't.

I've always felt that having a garden is like having a good and loyal friend.

There is a destiny which makes us brothers none goes his way alone. All that we send into the lives of others comes back into our own.

When we get through with the Jews in America, they'll think the treatment they received in Germany was nothing.

Never mind whom you praise, but be very careful who you blame.

Fermentation equals civilization.

Marriage is the only actual bondage known to our law. There remain no legal slaves, except the mistress of every house.

I would have met Jesus sooner if not for Christians who led double lives.

I didn't grow up watching film but as a Ukrainian-American, music and stories and dance are crucial.