If commas are open to interpretation, hyphens are downright Delphic.

Something there is in cyberspace that doesn't love an apostrophe.

Why, if there is alphabet soup, do we not have punctuation cereal?

The English language is full of words that are just waiting to be misspelled, and the world is full of sticklers, ready to pounce.

Punctuation is a deeply conservative club. It hardly ever admits a new member.

The dictionary is a wonderful thing, but you can't let it push you around.

Commas, like nuns, often travel in pairs.

Everybody is a writer. Everybody uses e-mail and has Facebook pages and tweets.

The comma, if it's left out, sometimes can be a problem. There's a slogan on a T-shirt going around that "Let's Eat, Grandma," and "Let's Eat Grandma."

There is a phase in the life of every copy editor when she is obsessed with hyphens.

On the printed page, it's best to have everything - you know, to still mind your P's and Q's, dot your I's and cross your T's, yes.

The moments you feel to give up your life can create the best moments to grasp fully the meaning of your life!

One's too many and a hundred's not enough.

My worst quality is impatience.

Patience, time and money accommodate all things.

A nation's domestic and foreign policies and actions should be derived from the same standards of ethics, honesty and morality which are characteristic of the individual citizens of the nation.

Above all, what socialist, without flushing with shame, maintains he is not a revolutionary? We say: none!.

Communism needs democracy like the human body needs oxygen.

You cannot have strong leadership without passion.

When you're one step ahead of the crowd you're a genius. When you're two steps ahead, you're a crackpot.

People pretend to be nice, people pretend to be smooth, and polite and everything, but this is only an appearance, because the way we're built as human beings is only in paradox and contradictions.