Too exact, and studious of similitude rather than of beauty. [Lat., Nimis in veritate, et similitudinis quam pulchritudinis amantior.]

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.

I don't ask for your pity, but just for your understanding – not even that – no. Just for some recognition of me in you, and the enemy, time, in us all.

Live life to the fullest and never forget the people that supported you along the way.

If you treat me fairly, I'll give you all my goods.

The kind of crabbing my wife likes to do is to return from an afternoon's swim or sunbathing session, open the refrigerator door, and find a generous plate of crab cakes all ready to cook.

Here lies Gomez Addams -- he was good for nothing.

The Way is the source of all things, good people's treasure and bad people's refuge.

Leadership isn't answering the questions others ask. Leadership is asking others to answer their own questions.

Like many others, I sometimes find that cooking can be naturally grounding.

Your destiny is determined by your decisions.

A genuinely fundamental and hopeful improvement in "systems" cannot happen without a significant shift in human consciousness.