One should aim not at being possible to understand, but at being impossible to misunderstand.

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.

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.

The perfection of art is to conceal art.

In spite of all - Be Happy.

Jack of all trades or master of one? If you're a master of one, you'll soon be a master of none. Times are a changin. Be a jack of all trades. Or better, master of many!

She was a blank, a wordless being. She was a hole in the universe.

the only weapon you have got to conquer fear, it is will not to fail

I can tell you that I'd rather be kissed by my dogs than by some people I've known.

Nothing is so strongly fortified that it cannot be taken by money.

It is with happiness as with watches: the less complicated, the less easily deranged.

There are far more good answers "out there" than there are in you.

Ain't no man can avoid being born average, but there ain't no man got to be common.

It would be absolute folly to rule myself out of any job.