Vigorous writing is concise. 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. This requires not that the writer make all sentences short or avoid all detail and treat subjects only in outline, but that every word tell. -- William Strunk, Jr. (The Elements of Style)

It is impossible to sharpen a pencil with a blunt axe. It is equally vain to try to do it with ten blunt axes instead. -- Edsger Dijkstra

Talkers are no good doers. -- William Shakespeare, "Henry VI"

A charlatan makes obscure what is clear; a thinker makes clear what is obscure. -- Hugh Kingsmill

Two people should stay together if together they are better people than they would be individually. -- ?

No art, however minor, demands less than total dedication if you want to excel in it. -- Alberti

We become what we think about most of the time, and that’s the strangest secret. ~Earl Nightingale

What’s money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do. –Bob Dylan

The first step toward success is taken when you refuse to be a captive of the environment in which you first find yourself. ~Mark Caine

It's your place in the world; it's your life. Go on and do all you can with it, and make it the life you want to live. –Mae Jemison