Eat when the food is ready; speak when the time is right.

No problem is so deep that it cannot be overcome, given the will of all parties, through discussion and negotiation rather than force and violence.

Without properly kept accounts it is impossible to maintain truth in its pristine purity.

You will make all kinds of mistakes; but as long as you are generous and true, and also fierce, you cannot hurt the world or even seriously distress her.

Religion is a great force—the only real motive force in the world; but what you fellows don't understand is that you must get a man through his own religion and not through yours.

But all my life through, the very insistence on truth has taught me to appreciate the beauty of compromise.

The better you are at communicating negotiating, and handling your fear of rejection, the easier life is.

No amount of evidence will ever persuade an idiot.

The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.

My experience has shown me that we win justice quickest by rendering justice to the other party.

Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another.

Silence at the proper season is wisdom, and better than any speech.

It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably gracious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.

The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.

Oh, I offended you with my opinion? You should hear the the ones I keep to myself.

We know how to speak many falsehoods which resemble real things, but we know, when we will, how to speak true things.

The right to free speech is more important than the content of the speech.

It is usually futile to try to talk facts and analysis to people who are enjoying a sense of moral superiority in their ignorance.

People who know what they’re talking about don’t need PowerPoint.

Never put off till tomorrow the fun you can have today.

Happy the man, and happy he alone, he who can call today his own; he who, secure within, can say, tomorrow, do thy worst, for I have lived today.

An hour of planning can say you 10 hours of doing.

The thought of only being a creature of the present and the past was troubling. I longed for a future, too, with hope in it. The desire to be free, awakened my determination to act, to think, and to speak.

Now is no time to think of what you do not have. Think of what you can do with what there is.

You will find rest from vain fancies if you perform every act in life as though it were your last.

The power for creating a better future is contained in the present moment: You create a good future by creating a good present.

Take time to deliberate; but when the time for action arrives, stop thinking and go in.