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.
- Topic: Communication, Honor, Perception
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So many of our dreams at first seem impossible. Then they seem improbable. And then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable.
Man’s goodness is a flame that can be hidden but never extinguished.
There can be no keener revelation of a society’s soul than the way in which it treats its children.
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Where words fail, music speaks.
After all, the only proper intoxication is conversation.
Anybody can become angry—that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way—that is not within everybody’s power and is not easy.
The thing I hate about an argument is that it always interrupts a discussion.
With reasonable men, I will reason; with humane men I will plead; but to tyrants I will give no quarters, nor waste arguments where they will certainly be lost.
Aloha is free.
He’s a wonderful talker, who has the art of telling you nothing in a great harangue.
Words are more treacherous and powerful than we think.
To me there has never been a higher source of earthly honor or distinction than that connected with advances in science.
Let me give you a tip on a clue to men’s characters: the man who damns money has obtained it dishonorably; the man who respects it has earned it.
You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.
There are few things more dishonorable than misleading the young.
Duty, honor, country. Those three hallowed words dictate what you ought to be, what you can be, what you will be.
Those are most desirous of honor and glory who cry out the loudest of its abuse and the vanity of the world.
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
The growth of the mind is the widening of the range of consciousness, and . . . each step forward has been a most painful and laborious achievement.
It is an ecological, theological, and biological reality: The more we are in tune with eternal nature, the more we will be able to hear the still small voice within and have explosions of inspirational insight.
Never exceed your rights, and they will soon become unlimited.
On some preference esteem is based; to esteem everything is to esteem nothing.
Death is no more than passing from one room into another. But there's a difference for me, you know. Because in that other room I shall be able to see.
Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.