Those who wish to appear learned to fools, appear as fools to the learned.

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.

Leadership is the art of influencing people to execute your strategic thinking

I turned into the Greenbrier High School parking lot with a singular mission: figure out a way to keep my brothers from chasing off every guy who seemed interested in me.

Your actions are catalysts to another’s actions. One could last a second, another could last to the end of mankind. Share kindness, plant the seed, help humanity overcome their greed.

No power is strong enough to be lasting if it labors under the weight of fear.

You decide what it is you want to accomplish and then you lay out your plans to get there and then you just do it. It's pretty straightforward.

After all my erstwhile dear my no longer cherished need we say it was no love just because it perished?

You can't force a movie to happen. Movies happen when they're supposed to happen. Everything happens in God's time. I really believe that.

A work of art comes only from inside a human being.

In real life I'm very low-key. A wallflower. One of the reasons I went into comedy and acting was that I was sick of being shy.

Most people are trying to go digital, and trying to do different things with poetry. McSweeney's is going in the opposite direction - going more classic, and retro, which is all coming back.