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

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.

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.

One of underestimated tasks in nonfiction writing is to impose narrative shape on an unwieldy mass of material.

Fill your mind, with the mind of God, meditate on the Holy Scripture.

Accountants are in the past, managers are in the present, and leaders are in the future.

The value of a life is but your consciousness of its importance.

It’s delicious like my favorite treat! It’s definitely good to eat!

My fan mail is enormous. Everyone is under six.

The mere fact that you get a lot of seeds in a packet doesn't mean you have to plant all of them.

Physicians are like kings- They brook no contradiction.

I have a rich, full, textured life.

We are so ruled by what people tell us we must be that we have forgotten who we are.

The only goal of science is the honour of the human spirit, and a question in number theory is worth a question concerning the system of the world.