A man's word is his honor.

Peace is not the absence of war, but a virtue based on strength of character.

If it is any use to know it, I always try to write on the principle of the iceberg. There is seven-eighths of it under water for every part that shows.

Oh, I offended you with my opinion? You should hear the the ones I keep to myself.

One can acquire everything in solitude—except character.

It wasn't until late in life that I discovered how easy it is to say "I don't know."

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.

Between what is said and not meant, and what is meant and not said, most of love is lost.

Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.

Understanding a question is half an answer.

Aloha is free.

With reasonable men, I will reason; with humane men I will plead; but to tyrants I will give no quarters, nor waste arguments where they will certainly be lost.

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

Noise proves nothing. Often a hen who has merely laid an egg crackles as if she had laid an asteroid.

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.

Confidence…thrives on honesty, on honor, on the sacredness of obligations, on faithful protection and on unselfish performance. Without them it cannot live.

Duty, honor, country. Those three hallowed words dictate what you ought to be, what you can be, what you will be.

There are few things more dishonorable than misleading the young.

Let me give you a tip on a clue to men’s characters: the man who damns money has obtained it dishonorably; the man who respects it has earned it.

Truly, to tell lies is not honorable; but when the truth entails tremendous ruin, to speak dishonorably is pardonable.

To me there has never been a higher source of earthly honor or distinction than that connected with advances in science.

Glass, china, and reputation are easily cracked, and never mended well.

He whose honor depends on the opinion of the mob must day by day strive with the greatest anxiety, act and scheme in order to retain his reputation. For the mob is varied and inconsistent, and therefore if a reputation is not carefully preserved it dies quickly.

No man will ever bring out the Presidency the reputation which carries him into it.

No one returns with good will to the place which has done him a mischief.