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

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.

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.

The perfection of art is to conceal art.

Of everything we must first ask: is it real or not?

Our hearts are magnets. We attract to our heart the emotions that live within it

The choice lay out for me. Stay on land or plunge into the icy depths of the sea. I always chose the sea.

It is no mystery why nice people are well-liked and get along harmoniously with others. Being nice makes people feel emotionally safe, allowing for more authentic, trusting, and happy interactions.

The truth, however ugly in itself, is always curious and beautiful to seekers after it.

Theatre is the most perfect artistic form of coercion.

The life-world of human and animal experience, with colours, tastes, solid objects, is a perceptual effect of massed atoms.

I'm not used to seeing the ball go wherever she wants. As a pitcher, I like to be - I don't want to say perfect, but I want to know what the ball is going to do.

The kingdom of heaven was never intended to indulge the ease of triflers, but to the rest of them that labor.

I prefer to think of the creation or construction of happiness, because research shows that it's in our power to fashion it for ourselves.