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.

Whilst we deliberate how to begin a thing, it grows too late to begin it.

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.

The perfection of art is to conceal art.

I wouldn't be your best and most marvelous friend in the galaxy if I didn’t point out there might be a few negative consequences from all…” she gazed upward and twirled her hand in the air “…this.

If Thy dear home be fuller, Lord, For that a little emptierMy house on earth, what rich rewardsThat guerdon were.

When you watch television, you never see people watching television. We love television because it brings us a world in which television does not exist.

I love to prepare if it's something that requires training. But I don't like to prepare the psychology too much.

A big ego isn't necessarily a bad thing. A big ego means that you have some confidence in your abilities, really, and that you're prepared to take the risk of trying them out.

Wall Street is stronger than ever.

Cursed Mammon be, when he with treasures To restless action spurs our fate! Cursed when for soft, indulgent leisures, He lays for us the pillows straight.

You will never become who you want to be if you keep blaming everyone else for who you are now.

I used to have nightmares that they would put 'He played Ted' on my tombstone.

People get so caught up in needing to know and having to prove themselves to be right, and I'm blown away by this.