I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.

The world is a mountain, in which your words are echoed back to you.

The greatest gift I can give is to see, hear, understand and touch another person. When this is done, I feel contact has been made.

A fool contributes nothing worth hearing and takes offense to everything.

It takes two years to learn to speak and sixty to learn to keep quiet.

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

An inability to stay quiet . . . is one of the most conspicuous failings of mankind.

The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.

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

Great wisdom is generous, petty wisdom is contentious. Great speech is impassioned, small speech in cantankerous.

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.

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

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.

It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.

Since men are neither omniscient nor infallible, they must be free to agree or disagree, to cooperate or to pursue their own independent course, each according to his own rational judgment. Freedom is the fundamental requirement of man's mind.