The empty vessel makes the greatest sound.

Keep in mind that the true measure of an individual is how he treats a person who can do him absolutely no good.

One can acquire everything in solitude—except character.

We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the hateful words and actions of the bad people but for the appalling silence of the good people.

The liar is no better than the thief, and if his mendacity takes the form of slander he may be worse than most thieves. It puts a premium upon knavery untruthfully to attack an honest man, or even with hysterical exaggeration to assail a bad man with untruth.

Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.

Plans will get you into things, but you have got to work your way out.

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

People don’t get along because they fear each other. People fear each other because they don’t know each other. They don’t know each other because they have not properly communicated with each other.

Let thy speech be short, comprehending much in few words

There are few things more dishonorable than misleading the young.

Those who enjoy responsibility usually get it; those who merely enjoy exercising authority usually lose it.

He who fears the sun will not become chief.

Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.

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.

The United States of America is the greatest, the noblest and, in its original founding principles, the only moral country in the history of the world.

You cannot have a proud and chivalrous spirit if your conduct is mean and paltry; for whatever a man’s actions are, such must be his spirit.

Kindly words do not enter so deeply into men as a reputation for kindness.

You shall judge of a man by his foes as well as by his friends.

An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife.

The charges we bring against others often come home to ourselves; we inveigh against our faults which are as much ours as theirs; and so our eloquence ends by tellings against ourselves.