When defeat is inevitable, it is wisest to yield.

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.

Poetry is a mirror which makes beautiful that which is distorted.

Conscience without judgment is superstition.

Those wounds stay with you, and you turn them into a language and a purpose.

Your strength is how calmly, quietly and peacefully you face life.

By 1975 sexual feeling and marriage will have nothing to do with each other.

The cause of making the world a better place for children unites us all.

I would get in fights a lot. My voice was so heavy, kids would say you sound like a boy, so I would start beating them up.

Nature was taking back what had once been hers.

I think everyone should sit down and write a book. It's a lot like therapy but a lot less expensive.

Everything makes me vulnerable, you just have to use it as an actor. It's a constant balance.