One who tells you about others will tell others about you.

Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience.

The greatest gift I can give is to see, hear, understand and touch another person. When this is done, I feel contact has been made.

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.

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.

When you see a good man, try to emulate his example, and when you see a bad man, search yourself for his faults.

A man has to learn that he cannot command things, but that he can command himself; that he cannot coerce the wills of others, but that he can mold and master his own will: and things serve him who serves Truth; people seek guidance of him who is master of himself.

No man will ever bring out the Presidency the reputation which carries him into it.