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

The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.

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

Madness does not govern a country; discussion does.

One's philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes.

If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.

You will never be able to escape from your heart. So it is better to listen to what it has to say.

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.

Listening is a magnetic and strong thing, a creative force. The friends who listen to us are the ones we move toward. When we are listened to, it creates us, makes us unfold and expand.

Most conversations are just alternating monologues. The question is, is there any real listening going on.

I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.

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

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.

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

Let thy speech be short, comprehending much in few words

If one but tell a thing well, it moves on with undying voice, and over the fruitful earth and across the sea goes the bright gleam of noble deeds ever unquenchable.

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.

The day will soon come when I will show the world that the transmission of power and speech without the aid of any wires is possible.

The right to free speech is more important than the content of the speech.

Think lovingly, speak lovingly, act lovingly, and every need shall be supplied.

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