Probably every subject is interesting if an avenue into it can be found that has humanity and that an ordinary person can follow.

Less is more.

Writing is thinking on paper.

Clutter is the disease of American writing. We are a society strangling in unnecessary words, circular constructions, pompous frills, and meaningless jargon.

Hard writing makes easy reading. Easy writing makes hard reading.

Four basic premises of writing: clarity, brevity, simplicity, and humanity.

When you're ready to stop, stop. If you have presented all the facts and made the point you want to make, look for the nearest exit.

I almost always urge people to write in the first person. ... Writing is an act of ego and you might as well admit it.

Thought is action in rehearsal.

A clear sentence is no accident.

If the nails are weak, your house will collapse. If your verbs are weak and your syntax is rickety, your sentences will fall apart.

Fear is intense self-awareness.

Nothing can touch the human heart like kindness.

Remember, every failure makes you stronger and wiser.

A man is at his youngest when he thinks he is a man, not yet realizing that his actions must show it.

Relaxation and anxiety are incompatible responses that cannot coexist.

Sometimes you don't know who you can and cannot trust. I still learn that over and over again.

When it ceases to be fun, I'll stop and just stay in my restaurants.

If clothes can help you see yourself on your best day, why shouldn't every day be that day?

Don't be an agnostic. Be something.

All that is great in man comes through work; and civilization is its product.