People want to believe you are sincerely interested in them as persons, not just for what they can do for you.

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

After all, the only proper intoxication is conversation.

People don’t get along because they fear each other. People fear each other because they don’t know each other. They don’t know each other because they have not properly communicated with each other.

Rest satisfied with doing well, and leave others to talk of you as they will.

Everything you say should be true but not everything true should be said.

Every word has consequences. Every silence, too.

I was in darkness, but I took three steps and found myself in paradise. The first step was a good thought, the second, a good word; and the third, a good deed.

I usually make up my mind about a man in ten seconds; and I very rarely change it.

In all negotiations of difficulty, a man may not look to sow and reap at once; but must prepare business, and so ripen it by degrees.

When you want to help people, you tell them the truth. When you want to help yourself, you tell them what they want to hear.

The greatest leader is not the the one who necessarily does the greatest things. He is the one who gets people to do the greatest things. He is

When you see that in order to produce, you need to obtain permission from men who produce nothing - When you see that money is flowing to those who deal, not in goods, butt in favors - When you see that men get richer by graft and by pull than by work, and your laws don’t protect you against them, but protect them against you - When you see corruption being rewarded and honesty becoming a self-sacrifice - You may know that your society is doomed.

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.

There has never been a shortage of people eager to draw up blueprints for running other people’s lives.

False leaders create followers by lying.