Brevity is the soul of wit.

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.

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

Noise proves nothing. Often a hen who has merely laid an egg crackles as if she had laid an asteroid.

Aloha is free.

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.

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

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

Let thy speech be short, comprehending much in few words

It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably gracious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.

Surely human affairs would be far happier if the power in men to be silent were the same as that to speak. But experience more than sufficiently teaches that men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues.