A mediocre speech supported by all the power of delivery will be more impressive than the best speech unaccompanied by such power.

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.

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.

Writing is storytelling and all of us are authors, not just of words but of reality. You are the author of your life, so go out and live! Then never quit writing about it!

The depth of your network is more important than its length

A true friend finds a way to celebrate—even in the worst moments of life—and forces it upon you.

I've never felt nervous in front of big crowds and in big stadiums.

Football is a game that fascinates people around the World like nothing else.

Not one moment when I have not been conscious of being outside Paradise.

Underneath the visible problems with reading and writing lies the deeper problem of 'illearnacy': an acquired disabling of learning courage and learning initiative.

I love to teach - that's my role.

When you helped somebody, right away you were responsible for that person. And things always followed for which you were never prepared.

Dispositions of the mind, like limbs of the body, acquire strength by exercise.