Nothing can be pleasing which is not also becoming.

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.

Time define the sacred day.

Why is it always the innocents who suffer most, when you high lords play your game of thrones?

I love the expression 'makes your skin crawl,' because when you have that sensation while you're watching something, it really does.

Downstairs, Grandad's warning Barron about something. His voice swells, and I catch the words, "In my day we were feared. Now we're just afraid.

My father had osteomyelitis-his left arm was withered between his elbow and his shoulder ... . But the amputation of a Stone Age man called Leaf, a stoneworker, does not relate to my father at all.

Do not place hope in finding a secret technique. Polish the mind through ceaseless training; that is the key to effective techniques.

Creative individuals tend to be smart, yet also naive at the same time... Creative individuals have a combination of playfulness and discipline, or responsibility and irresponsibility.

To end up with a canvas that is no less beautiful than the empty canvas is to begin with.

Once you have a very, very large budget, you actually look for expensive things to spend it on.

In life, change is inevitable. In business, change is vital.