Without natural gifts technical rules are useless.

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.

Music is the sound of unspoken thoughts.

New capabilities emerge just by virtue of having smart people with access to state-of-the-art technology.

It's the people who seem weak who are always suprisingly strong, and the ones who seem strong who are unexpectledly weak.

In other words apart from the known and the unknown what else is there?

Chivalry is a poor substitute for justice if one cannot have both. Chivalry is something like the icing on cake sweet but not nourishing.

Love of learning led to monasteries, which became the cradle of academic guilds.

I realized that I have to slow down. I work so hard, I'm so busy.

In order to be Miss Anybody you had to have excellent grades, and I had terrible grades because of my dyslexia.

The U.S. needs to control the Middle East, the gateway to Asia. It already has military installations in Uzbekistan.

Socialism as I understand it is a system of democracy. Without democracy, there is no socialism.