(Slaughter) means blood and iron. [Lat., Coedes videtur significare sanguinem et ferrum.]

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.

Before you can change your life for the better, change your thoughts for the better.

If I have done any deed worthy of remembrance, that deed will be my monument. If not, no monument can preserve my memory.

Caught between the tongue and the taste.

The favor of God does not bless self-promotion

Whether or not Twitter makes you stupid, it certainly makes some smart people sound stupid.

The salt blowing off the sea makes the air feel textured and heavy.

In love, self-love is always at risk.

Violence in real life is terrible; violence in movies can be cool. It's just another colour to work with.

As someone who worships music, I believe it can never be ugly!

You do not become a critic until it has been completely established to your own satisfaction that you cannot be a poet.