Rich, ornate prose is hard to digest, generally unwholesome, and sometimes nauseating.

...when a sentence is made stronger, it usually becomes shorter. Thus, brevity is a by-product of vigor.

A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts.

If you don't know how to pronounce a word, say it loud!

Make definite assertions. Avoid tame, colorless, hesitating, non-committal language.

To acquire style, begin by affecting none.

None are so fallible as those who are sure they're right.

Vigorous writing is concise.

Instead of announcing what you are about to tell is interesting, make it so.

The approach to style is by way of plainness, simplicity, orderliness, sincerity.

A drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts.

What happens when a leader misses his steps on the ladder is what happens when a train misses the rail. Be on track.

I realized I loved him after everything went wrong so I wallowed in self-pity and prayed I could wake up.

Easy does it, boys. I just need help standing, not flying.

If money is your hope for independence, you will never have it. The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability.

You've got to kick fear to the side, because the payoff is huge.

I don't want something special. I want something beautifully plain.

Our musical alphabet is poor and illogical.

Correct the seasoning' - how that time-tested direction stimulates the born cook!

There is small merit in mocking goodness, tweaking charity; it is much more comic to deprive people of their petty little existence for no reason at all, for a lark.

You can never be comfortable with your success, you've got to be paranoid you're going to lose it.