Give thy thoughts no tongue.

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.

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

The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.

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

Silence is one of the great arts of conversation.

If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been.

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

Understanding a question is half an answer.

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

A place for everything and everything in its place.

Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing it is not fish they are after.

Don't be in a hurry to condemn because he doesn't do what you do or think as you do or as fast. There is a time when you didn't know what you know today.

If you have no time for prayer and meditation, you will have lots of time for sickness and trouble.

An inability to stay quiet . . . is one of the most conspicuous failings of mankind.

I love people. I love my family, my children… but inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that’s where you renew your springs that never dry up.

Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul.

It is easy in the world to live after the world’s opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.

Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.

It is absurd to hold that a man ought to be ashamed of being unable to defend himself with his limbs, but not of being unable to defend himself with speech and reason.

Great wisdom is generous, petty wisdom is contentious. Great speech is impassioned, small speech in cantankerous.

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

If you want to be happy, set a goal that commands your thoughts, liberates your energy and inspires your hopes.

Feeling sorry for yourself, and your present condition, is not only a waste of energy but the worst habit you could possibly have.

Be the witness of your thoughts. You are what observes, not what you observe.

He who fears he shall suffer, already suffers what he fears.

When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.

It is usually futile to try to talk facts and analysis to people who are enjoying a sense of moral superiority in their ignorance.

You must try to observe yourself more and more objectively, to look at everything in yourself as though another person.