Look for all fancy wordings and get rid of themAvoid all terms and expressions, old or new, that embody affectation.

Of course, clothing fashions have always been impractical, except in Tahiti.

If it were possible to talk to the unborn, one could never explain to them how it feels to be alive, for life is washed in the speechless real.

The danger that may really threaten (crime fiction) is that soon there will be more writers than readers

Political correctness does not legislate tolerance; it only organizes hatred.

Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition.

In teaching you cannot see the fruit of a day's work. It is invisible and remains so, maybe for twenty years.

The truth is, when all is said and done, one does not teach a subject, one teaches a student how to learn it.

If civilization has risen from the Stone Age, it can rise again from the Wastepaper Age.

Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball, the rules and realities of the game - and do it by watching first some high school or small-town teams.

Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation.

Yes, but none of them can steal my ship.None of them are smart enough to know that it was the right thing to do at the time.

Our moral virtues benefit mainly other people; intellectual virtues, on the other hand, benefit primarily ourselves; therefore the former make us universally popular, the latter unpopular.

I can't remember my telephone number, but I know it was in the high numbers.

I think there's something peculiar about me that I haven't died. It doesn't make sense but I refuse to die.

Wisdom eventually comes to all of us. Someday it might even be your turn.

Cheryl Cole, if you're reading this, I may not be as prety as you but at least I write my own songs.

If work were so pleasant, the rich would keep it for themselves.

Forgetfulness of your real nature is true death; remembrance of it is rebirth.

A lot of stuff in Wikipedia is not true, and that goes for a lot of people. I sometimes think, "How can that happen?" But Wikipedia is maintained by people, and everybody can add stuff to it.

Prohibition may be a disputed theory, but none can say that it doesn't hold water.