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

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

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

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.

Sometimes you can save someone’s whole world just by smiling at them. Kindness is one of those things that has immense value to the person experiencing it.

I'm not scared of spiders at all. I'm the spider killer in the house.

What is true for E. coli is also true for the elephant.

They have computers, and they may have other weapons of mass destruction.

You know this moment in time Is all my life Every day is each day that's passed Every person alive is everyone's who's died

I went out into the garden in the morning dusk, When sorrow enveloped me like a cloud; And the breeze brought to my nostril the odor of spices, As balm of healing for a sick soul.

I believe we are all geniuses-each in our own unique way.

Men keep their engagements when it is an advantage to both parties not to break them.

Ah, the patter of little feet around the house. There's nothing like having a midget for a butler.

My only love sprung from my only hate! Too early seen unknown, and known too late! Prodigious birth of love it is to me, That I must love a loathed enemy.