Prose is not necessarily good because it obeys the rules of syntax, but it is fairly certain to be bad if it ignores them.

Whenever we can make 25 words do the work of 50, we halve the area in which looseness and disorganization can flourish.

No one should ever have to read a sentence twice because of the way it is put together.

It is nonetheless the best usage that decides the meaning of words.

The good oxymoron, to define it by a self-illustration, must be a planned inadvertency.

The choosing among words is made by every user of the language, and not exclusively by professional speakers and writers.

I'd trade a hundred pretty faces for one person who's easy to talk to.

You are my love, you are my light, you are my blue sky, when I am vanishing in you only then I can fly.

Hatred is the coward's revenge for being intimidated.

Interest speaks all sorts of tongues and plays all sorts of parts even that of disinterestedness.

If I've been dating someone for, say, five months, and she cheats on me, I don't think it would be worth it. I'm not committed enough to the situation to give her a second chance.

I like working with people. I believe change can only come through collaboration.

We will never enjoy life unless we make a quality decision to do so.

When "I" and "You" are absent, I've no idea if this is a mosque, synagogue, church or temple

If there is one thing that will make a man peculiarly and insufferable self-conceited, it is to have his stomach behave itself, the first day at sea, when nearly all his comrades are seasick.

There was no way to grasp the reality of the present which slid away each second, invisible as air; reality only existed after the fact, in one's vision of the past.