Examine every word you put on paper. You'll find a surprising number that don't serve any purpose.

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.

Philosophical knowledge is knowledge which reason gains from concepts mathematical knowledge is knowledge which reason gains from the construction of concepts.

Those who win are those who think they can.

XAVIER: Being trapped in a life that you didn’t choose is no f***** picnic, no matter how good it may appear to people outside of the situation.

A positive mind-set says that you are not a victim to the whims of others or by circumstances over which you have no control.

Everyone got behind Fox, the name the guys had dubbed the red truck."Fox?" I asked, raising an eyebrow."Yeah, " Isaac said with a grin. "Our truck is hot, like Megan Fox.

It is fatal to let people suppose that Christianity is only a mode of feeling; it is vitally necessary to insist that it is first and foremost a rational explanation of the universe.

That's just the point: an honest and sensitive man opens his heart, and the man of business goes on eating - and then he eats you up.

Rap music came along and saved my life. I started to tell the stories of the streets and that was my way out.

Doing TV is great, but TV is for starring on, not for watching.

Motherhood: the days are long, the years are short.