A good example is the best sermon.

We can do anything we want to if we stick to it long enough.

You have no idea what your legacy will be. Your legacy is what you do every day. Your legacy is every life you’ve touched, every person whose life was either moved or not. It’s every person you’ve harmed or helped. That’s your legacy.

Each well-born soul must win what it deserves.

The creed which accepts as the foundation of morals Utility, or the Greatest Happiness Principle, holds that actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness, wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness.

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

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.

Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.

Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it.

You cannot push any one up a ladder unless he be willing to climb a little himself.

An evil man will burn his own nation to the ground to rule over ashes.

A man must stand erect, not be kept erect by others.

We should never permit ourselves to do anything that we are not willing to see our children do. We should set them an example that we wish them to imitate.

The superior man is the providence of the inferior. He is eyes for the blind, strength for the weak, and a shield for the defenseless. He stands erect by bending above the fallen. He rises by lifting others.

Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion.

There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the door.

If the highest aim of a captain were to preserve his ship, he would keep it in port forever.

To change your mind and to follow him who sets you straight is to be nonetheless the free agent that you were before.

It's frightful that people who are so ignorant should have so much influence.

Wherever there is injustice, war, discrimination against women, gays and the disadvantaged, I did my best to show up and exert moral persuasion.

But all my life through, the very insistence on truth has taught me to appreciate the beauty of compromise.

Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another.

Religion is a great force—the only real motive force in the world; but what you fellows don't understand is that you must get a man through his own religion and not through yours.

My experience has shown me that we win justice quickest by rendering justice to the other party.