An empty bag cannot stand up straight.

The charges we bring against others often come home to ourselves; we inveigh against our faults which are as much ours as theirs; and so our eloquence ends by tellings against ourselves.

He whose honor depends on the opinion of the mob must day by day strive with the greatest anxiety, act and scheme in order to retain his reputation. For the mob is varied and inconsistent, and therefore if a reputation is not carefully preserved it dies quickly.

Character develops itself in the stream of life.

Keep in mind that the true measure of an individual is how he treats a person who can do him absolutely no good.

One can acquire everything in solitude—except character.

Aloha is free.

If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.

All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.

Teach your child to hold his tongue; he'll learn fast enough to speak.

The reason angels can fly is because they take themselves lightly.

If things seem under control, you are just not going fast enough.

At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want.

You must never be fearful about what you are doing when it is right.

When you see that in order to produce, you need to obtain permission from men who produce nothing - When you see that money is flowing to those who deal, not in goods, butt in favors - When you see that men get richer by graft and by pull than by work, and your laws don’t protect you against them, but protect them against you - When you see corruption being rewarded and honesty becoming a self-sacrifice - You may know that your society is doomed.

The world will ask you who you are, and if you don't know, the world will tell you.

People think that a liar gains a victory over his victim. What I've learned is that a lie is an act of self-abdication, because one surrenders one's reality to the person to whom one lies, making that person one's master, condemning oneself from then on to faking the sort of reality that person's view requires to be faked.

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

Sleep that masters all.

Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.

Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it.

If you are ever tempted to look for outside approval, realize that you have compromised your integrity.

Perfect wisdom has four parts; Wisdom, the principle of doing things right. Justice, the principle of doing things equally in public and private. Fortitude, the principle of not fleeing danger, but meeting it. Temperance, the principle of subduing desires and living moderately.

It is the responsibility of leadership to work intelligently with what is given, and not to waste time fantasizing about a world of flawless people and perfect choices.

Let no guilty man escape, if it can be avoided. No personal considerations should stand in the way of performing a public duty.

Everyone sees what you appear to be, few experience what you really are.

The United States of America is the greatest, the noblest and, in its original founding principles, the only moral country in the history of the world.

Next to the assumption of power is the responsibility of relinquishing it.

Those who enjoy responsibility usually get it; those who merely enjoy exercising authority usually lose it.

It has always been a mystery to me how men can feel themselves honoured by the humiliation of their fellow-beings.

The present moment is the only time over which we have dominion.

No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself, and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be true.

At the center of your being you are the answer. You know who you are, and you know what you want.

When I was playing before I retired, I never really understood the appreciation and respect that people gave me. People had treated me like a god or something, and that was very embarrassing.

It is clear that the individual who persecutes a man, his brother, because he is not of the same opinion, is a monster.

Self-respect leads to self-discipline. When you have both firmly under your belt, that's real power.

Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.

Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth.