Listen with your eyes and your ears.

There are risks and costs to a program of action. But they are far less than the long range risks and costs of comfortable inaction.

What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is dearness only that gives every thing its value. Heaven knows how to put a proper price upon its goods; and it would be strange indeed if so celestial an article as freedom should not be highly rated.

We acquire a particular quality by acting in a particular way.

There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.

The greatest gift I can give is to see, hear, understand and touch another person. When this is done, I feel contact has been made.

The thing I hate about an argument is that it always interrupts a discussion.

We always like those who admire us; we do not always like those whom we admire.

Man’s goodness is a flame that can be hidden but never extinguished.

As leaders we are not only responsible for harvesting our own success, but for cultivating the success of the next generation.

But what is happiness except for the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads.

And even a liar can be scared into telling the truth, same as honest man can be tortured into telling a life.

We must reject the idea that every time a law's broken, society is guilty rather than the lawbreaker. It is time to restore the American precept that each individual is accountable for his actions.

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.

When you see a good man, try to emulate his example, and when you see a bad man, search yourself for his faults.

The biggest room in the world is the room for improvement.

Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to motivate them.

Silence is one of the great arts of conversation.

Listen with ears of tolerance, see through the eyes of compassion, speak with language of love.

It takes two years to learn to speak and sixty to learn to keep quiet.

The No. 1 reason people fail in life is because they listen to their friends, family, and neighbors.