Satiety is a neighbor to continued pleasures. [Lat., Continuis voluptatibus vicina satietas.]

Whilst we deliberate how to begin a thing, it grows too late to begin it.

We should not speak so that it is possible for the audience to understand us, but so that it is impossible for them to misunderstand us.

We excuse our sloth under the pretext of difficulty.

Write quickly and you will never write well; write well, and you will soon write quickly.

One should aim not at being possible to understand, but at being impossible to misunderstand.

While we are making up our minds as to when we shall begin. the opportunity is lost.

A mediocre speech supported by all the power of delivery will be more impressive than the best speech unaccompanied by such power.

Study depends on the goodwill of the student, a quality that cannot be secured by compulsion.

We must form our minds by reading deep rather than wide.

An evil-speaker differs from an evil-doer only in the want of opportunity.

I could smell something. Fear.I could taste it now.It tasted like blood in my mouth, and I could feel it slide through me and open me up when I saw him ...

By the 1960s the United States had a new ruling class—the teenager!

I am not half the man I use to think I was.

It's not about how much work you're doing. It's about what work you're doing and how you're doing the work.

You can take Saban's record when he was at Michigan State and when he was a coach in the Big Ten and put it against mine, and he can't compare.

To me, being the best means proving it in different countries and championships.

In their religion they are so uneven, That each man goes his own byway to heaven.

The sea with an end can be Greek or Roman: the endless sea is Portuguese.

I always do book signings with the same blue pen. That way, if I add a personalised message to a book I've already signed, it'll be in the same colour as my signature.

Control your thoughts and you control your circumstance.