A smile costs nothing, but yields huge dividends.

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

Understanding a question is half an answer.

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.

Man's tongue is soft, and bone doth lack; yet a stroke therewith may break a man's back.

Meaningful silence is better than meaningless words.

After all, the only proper intoxication is conversation.

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

Aloha is free.

Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier.

Be like the flower, turn your face to the sun.

The optimist sees the rose and not its thorns; the pessimist stares at the thorns, oblivious of the rose.

One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.

When we seek to discover the best in others, we somehow bring out the best in ourselves.

An optimist may see a light where there is none, but why must the pessimist always run to blow it out?