If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. But do not care to convince him. Men will believe what they see. Let them see.

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

Noise proves nothing. Often a hen who has merely laid an egg crackles as if she had laid an asteroid.

Born, n. a person who talks when you wish him to listen.

When one remains silent in the face of oppression, one is on the side of the oppressor.

A good head and good heart are always a formidable combination. But when you add to that a literate tongue or pen, then you have something very special...

Aloha is free.

A man has to learn that he cannot command things, but that he can command himself; that he cannot coerce the wills of others, but that he can mold and master his own will: and things serve him who serves Truth; people seek guidance of him who is master of himself.

We should never permit ourselves to do anything that we are not willing to see our children do. We should set them an example that we wish them to imitate.

We ought not to let either our joy at their faults or our grief at their success be idle, but in either case we ought to reflect, how we may become better than them by avoiding their errors, and by imitating their virtues not come short of them.

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

The lion doesn't turn around when the small dog barks.

If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts he shall end in certainties.

...the individual ceases to be himself; he adopts entirely the kind of personality offered to him by cultural patterns; and he therefore becomes exactly as all others are and as they expect him to be...The person who gives up his individual self and becomes an automaton, identical with millions of other automatons around him, need not feel alone and anxious any more. But the price he pays, however, is high; it is the loss of his self.

You assist an evil system most effectively by obeying its orders and decrees. An evil system never deserves such allegiance. Allegiance to it means partaking of the evil. A good person will resist an evil system with his or her whole soul.

Let us resolve to be masters, not victims, of our history, controlling our own destiny without giving way to blind suspicions and emotions.

A fast way to demolish relationships, shatter credibility and disrespect yourself is by not following through when you say you are going to do something.

If you know the enemy and know yourself you need not fear the results of a hundred battles.

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.

In all negotiations of difficulty, a man may not look to sow and reap at once; but must prepare business, and so ripen it by degrees.

Peace by persuasion has a pleasant sound, but I think we should not be able to work it. We should have to tame the human race first, and history seems to show that that cannot be done.

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

One who believes in himself has no need to convince others.