Motivation clears the head faster than a nasal spray.

Abraham Lincoln and Winston Churchill rode to glory on the back of the strong declarative sentence.

Eloquence invites us to bring some part of ourselves to the transaction.

Don't hedge your prose with little timidities. Good writing is lean and confident. . . . Every little qualifier whittles away some fraction of the reader's trust. Readers want a writer who believes in himself and in what he is saying. Don't diminish that belief. Don't be kind of bold. Be bold.

Writing is hard work. A clear sentence is no accident. Very few sentences come out right the first time, or even the third time. Remember this in moments of despair. If you find that writing is hard, it's because it is hard. It's one of the hardest things that people do

The writer who cares about usage must always know the quick from the dead.

If the nails are weak, your house will collapse. If your verbs are weak and your syntax is rickety, your sentences will fall apart.