Few people realize how badly they write. Nobody has shown them how much excess or murkiness has crept into their style.

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.

She was the half-whispers born from half-thoughts, the half-breaths of dying half-hearts.

This world is your mirror. Wherever you go, you see a reflection of your thoughts.

I can't say enough how important is the spiritual lifeto know God is with you all the timegives you confidence

He who will not reason is a bigot he who cannot is a fool and he who dares not is a slave.

We are smart enough to realise that we are stupid, and stupid enough to make the problem of becoming smarter hard.

Our tears prepare the ground for our future growth.

I love acting and I know that's a cliché, but I didn't really, I was very naïve when it came to the whole being recognized thing.

I think passive beauties have their place in the world. It's hard for me to relate to that.

Here's what the rest of the world does that we don't do. They take the tax off of their exports and place a tax on their imports. We do the opposite. We tax our exports and don't tax our imports.

Just because you lose doesn't make you a loser. It's not the same fight every time.