...when a sentence is made stronger, it usually becomes shorter. Thus, brevity is a by-product of vigor.

A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts.

If you don't know how to pronounce a word, say it loud!

Make definite assertions. Avoid tame, colorless, hesitating, non-committal language.

To acquire style, begin by affecting none.

None are so fallible as those who are sure they're right.

Vigorous writing is concise.

Instead of announcing what you are about to tell is interesting, make it so.

Rich, ornate prose is hard to digest, generally unwholesome, and sometimes nauseating.

The approach to style is by way of plainness, simplicity, orderliness, sincerity.

A drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts.

Nine hundred years of time and space, and I've never met anyone who wasn't important.

Now even reformers needed political machines.

If you find even the smallest way to make people smile, they’ll remember you more for that smile than for all your other fancy business-model stuff

Success is simple. Do what's right the right way at the right time.

I've often noticed" Fiona said, "that when people say, 'This can't happen in this day and age', they say it because it is happening.

When we say a rapper, a rapper can say a rhyme. But an MC can rock a party.

Some men are tempted to violate secrecy from the uneasiness secrecy gives them, and others, merely to impress you with the extent of their confidence.

A lot of people don't know that my father is black

I love getting into the basement of a courthouse, and all the dusty records - all that stuff makes me really happy.

Don't judge me by my past. I don't live there anymore