As regards parents, I should like to see them as highly educated as possible, and I do not restrict this remark to fathers alone.

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 thought maybe I would be everyone's favorite dude-food friend.

Facts, like telescopes and wigs for gentlemen, were a seventeenth century invention.

Apple is always focused on out-innovating itself... and that is something I am very proud to be a part of.

Punctuality is a virtue, If you don't mind being lonely.

I figure all any kid needs is hope and the feeling he or she belongs.

The poetic sensibility was too good for this world, it was best to burn brightly and to die young like a shooting star.

I will say that the prison regime is rather a good one for a writer because you have plenty of time to write.

Who knows if John McCain could have won that presidential campaign [2008] in any circumstances when George W. Bush the outgoing Republican president had a 22 percent approval rating.

To me, what separates a funny movie from a good movie is something personal.