Writers can write to affirm and to celebrate, or they can write to debunk and destroy; the choice is ours.

Less is more.

Writing is thinking on paper.

Clutter is the disease of American writing. We are a society strangling in unnecessary words, circular constructions, pompous frills, and meaningless jargon.

Hard writing makes easy reading. Easy writing makes hard reading.

Four basic premises of writing: clarity, brevity, simplicity, and humanity.

When you're ready to stop, stop. If you have presented all the facts and made the point you want to make, look for the nearest exit.

I almost always urge people to write in the first person. ... Writing is an act of ego and you might as well admit it.

Thought is action in rehearsal.

A clear sentence is no accident.

If the nails are weak, your house will collapse. If your verbs are weak and your syntax is rickety, your sentences will fall apart.

Freedom is taking control of the rudder of your life.

It’s the people you hold closest who have the most power to make you bleed.

What I teach is how to go inside and reach that place I call "love consciousness." This is a place of peace and joy that is within all humans.

A third force, developing itself more slowly, becomes even more potent than the rest: the power of gold.

You have to stop yourself from even thinking about failing.

Cannot people realize how large an income is thrift?

Knowledge is when you learn something new every day. Wisdom is when you let something go every day.

We are the accidental result of an unplanned process ... the fragile result of an enormous concatenation of improbabilities, not the predictable product of any definite process.

A man's perfection is his work.

I still have the drive. I just want to push the barriers and see what I can do and how far I can go. I am just determined and driven.