It is worse to be irresolute than to be wrong.

...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.

Love consists of a commitment which limits one's freedom - it is a giving of the self, and to give oneself means just that: to limit one's freedom on behalf of another.

We often feel proud of our knowledge even when it is filled with emptiness.

It's not about making the right choice. It's about making a choice and making it right.

Life doesn't get much better than this.

The greyhound that starts many hares kills none.

My job is to call attention to the things that I think are the difference between winning and losing. If I can't do that then I have failed as a coach.

Trying to tell you I'm the one, come and holla at me before I'm on the next thing, YMCMB.

In duty the individual acquires his substantive freedom

Courage is how bad you want it.

I cannot be grasped in the here and now, For my dwelling place is much among the dead, As the yet unborn, Slightly closer to the heart of creation than usual, But still not close enough.