If action was easy there would be less talk.

Two of the hardest tests in life: The patience to wait for the right moment and the courage to accept whatever you encounter.

All good writing is swimming under water and holding your breath.

The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action.

We acquire a particular quality by acting in a particular way.

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.

Without some goals and some efforts to reach it, no man can live.

As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.

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.

Speak not, but what may benefit others or yourself; avoid trifling conversation.

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

The world is a mountain, in which your words are echoed back to you.

To effectively communicate, we must realize that we are all different in the way we perceive the world and use this understanding as a guide to our communication with others.

When one remains silent in the face of oppression, one is on the side of the oppressor.

A Constitution of Government once changed from Freedom, can never be restored. Liberty, once lost, is lost forever.

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.

Since men are neither omniscient nor infallible, they must be free to agree or disagree, to cooperate or to pursue their own independent course, each according to his own rational judgment. Freedom is the fundamental requirement of man's mind.

We shall soon be in a world in which a man may be howled down for saying that two and two make four, in which people will persecute the heresy of calling a triangle a three-sided figure, and hang a man for maddening a mob with the news that grass is green.

Understanding a question is half an answer.

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.

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