Instead of speaking saintly words we must act them.

The right man is the one who seizes the moment.

The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world’s problems.

He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.

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

However many holy words you read, However many you speak, What good will they do you If you do not act on upon them?

The truth is always exciting. Speak it, then. Life is dull without it.

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.

It is absurd to hold that a man ought to be ashamed of being unable to defend himself with his limbs, but not of being unable to defend himself with speech and reason.

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