To write better you must develop your taste for truth. You have to pay more attention to what you really think, feel, see and want.

Start writing by thinking, not wrestling with words.

If you'd blush saying something in person, don't write it.

Your language indicates──and limits──what you think.

Guilt loves the passive.

Dare to make a wish that can change your life!

In Japan, I was immensely impressed by the politeness, industrious nature and conscientiousness of the Japanese people.

This stammer got me a home in Beverly Hills, and I'm not about to screw with it now.

Do not be perturbed with by an ill-bred person; in most cases the one who is unsociable has a liver complaint and bad nerves.

Basis of society: anonymous sweat.

Geniuses never pay attention.

Relativity. Gravity. Quantum. Electrodynamics. Evolution. Each of these theories is true, whether or not you believe in them.

I learned that good judgment comes from experience and that experience grows out of mistakes.

Yes, we have the freedom to do what we please, but it only works because we don't do everything we might please - we should exercise some degree of personal, and corporate, responsibility.

Gough, of course, would have loved to speak today but the rules of the game have disqualified him.