Mend your speech a little, Lest you may mar your fortunes.

He’s a wonderful talker, who has the art of telling you nothing in a great harangue.

We still have a choice today: nonviolent coexistence or violent coannihilation. This may well be mankind's last chance between chaos and community.

Let thy speech be short, comprehending much in few words

When angry, count to ten before you speak; if very angry, one hundred.

Understanding a question is half an answer.

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

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

The day will soon come when I will show the world that the transmission of power and speech without the aid of any wires is possible.

If one but tell a thing well, it moves on with undying voice, and over the fruitful earth and across the sea goes the bright gleam of noble deeds ever unquenchable.

The truth is always exciting. Speak it, then. Life is dull without it.

Think lovingly, speak lovingly, act lovingly, and every need shall be supplied.

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

The wise man accepts his pain, endures it, but does not add to it.

All things are filled full of signs, and it is a wise man who can learn about one thing from another.

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.

Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance. Where there is patience and humility, there is neither anger nor vexation. Where there is poverty and joy, there is neither greed nor avarice. Where there is peace and meditation, there is neither anxiety nor doubt.

Wisdom is nothing but a preparation of the soul, a capacity, a secret art of thinking, feeling and breathing thoughts of unity at every moment of life.

Grant me, O Lord my God, a mind to know you, a heart to seek you, wisdom to find you, conduct pleasing to you, faithful perseverance in waiting for you, and a hope of finally embracing you. Amen.

First, have a definite, clear practical ideal; a goal, an objective. Second, have the necessary means to achieve your ends; wisdom, money, materials, and methods. Third, adjust all your means to that end.