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• Be concise in your writing and talking, especially when giving instructions to others.
• Discipline, like the bridle in the hand of a good rider, should exercise its influence without appearing to do so
  hould be ever active, both as a support and as a restraint, yet seem to lie easily in hand....
• When I come upon anything-- in Logic or in any other hard subject-- that entirely puzzles me, I find it a capital plan to talk it over, aloud, even when I am all alone.
  One can explain things so clearly to one's self! And then, you know, one is so patient with one's self...
• If you explain so clearly that nobody can misunderstand, somebody will.
• If you explain something so clearly that no one can possibly misunderstand, someone will.
• No man can think clearly when his fists are clenched.
• Thirteen years ago, researchers studied a group of 25 infants who showed signs of mild distress when exposed to unfamiliar stimuli such as an unusual odor or a tape recording of an unknown voice.
  They discovered that these infants were more likely than other infants to have been conceived in early autumn, a time when their mothers' production of melatonin ....