Virtue, though she gets her beginning from nature, yet receives her finishing touches from learning.

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 can do this, I lied to myself feebly. No one was going to bite me.

Humanity is in her infancy, so start enjoying the journey.

The path you create then follow becomes the story of your life.

The helicopter is a fine way to travel, but it induces a view of the world that only God and CEOs share on a regular basis.

The best acting is instinctive. It's not intellectual, it's not mechanical, it's instinctive.

We live at the level of our language. Whatever we can articulate we can imagine or understand or explore.

I always enjoy seeing Adam [Savage] in pain.

Suddenly, you are very much in the present, and you learn it's really the place where you should always live.

I used to say that I wanted someone cute and nice, an actor too, so he'd get it. But now I think it would be good for me to date someone who's not in the business.

Writing is finally a series of permissions you give yourself to be expressive in certain ways. To leap. To fly. To fail.