I'm a guy who works very hard and if I want something bad enough, I'm going to do anything possible to get it.
Anyone who finds himself putting down several commas close to one another should reflect that he is making himself disagreeable.
Prefer the familiar word to the far-fetched. Prefer the concrete word to the abstract. Prefer the single word to the circumlocution. Prefer the short word to the long. Prefer the Saxon word to the Romance.
Any one who wishes to become a good writer should endeavour, before he allows himself to be tempted by the more showy qualities, to be direct, simple, brief, vigorous, and lucid.
The purpose of paragraphing is to give the reader a rest. The writer is saying. . . : Have you got that? If so, I'll go to the next point.
Those who run to long words are mainly the unskillful and tasteless; they confuse pomposity with dignity, flaccidity with ease, and bulk with force.
Quotation. . . A writer expresses himself in words that have been used before because they give his meaning better than he can give it himself, or because they are beautiful or witty, or because he expects them to touch a cord of association in his reader, or because he wishes to show that he is learned and well read. Quotations due to the last motive are invariably ill-advised; the discerning reader detects it and is contemptuous; the undiscerning is perhaps impressed, but even then is at the same time repelled, pretentious quotations being the surest road to tedium.
Lack of forgiveness causes almost all of our self-sabotaging behavior.
My mom passed away a day before high school started, and her dream was for me to be a full rock and roll guy, and play drums in a band.
When the audience isn't laughing, that doesn't mean that they're not fascinated.
Focus on your marriage. Because that's the nucleus of the home, whatever you do to restore its health and strength will naturally restore what's broken among the other relationships. If you have no children yet, this will make a comfortable nest for them to begin life well. If you have children, the changes you make in your marriage will affect the rest of the household more quickly and dramatically than you think.