I never met a speaker more important than a listener.

You cannot push any one up a ladder unless he be willing to climb a little himself.

We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.

...the individual ceases to be himself; he adopts entirely the kind of personality offered to him by cultural patterns; and he therefore becomes exactly as all others are and as they expect him to be...The person who gives up his individual self and becomes an automaton, identical with millions of other automatons around him, need not feel alone and anxious any more. But the price he pays, however, is high; it is the loss of his self.

Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute.

Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it.

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.

The biggest room in the world is the room for improvement.

Freedom of information is a fundamental human right...for a nation that is afraid to let its people to judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.

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

Meaningful silence is better than meaningless words.

The No. 1 reason people fail in life is because they listen to their friends, family, and neighbors.

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

Understanding a question is half an answer.

Never miss a good chance to shut up.

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

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

We know how to speak many falsehoods which resemble real things, but we know, when we will, how to speak true things.

Instead of speaking saintly words we must act them.

Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.

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

We shall soon be in a world in which a man may be howled down for saying that two and two make four, in which people will persecute the heresy of calling a triangle a three-sided figure, and hang a man for maddening a mob with the news that grass is green.

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

Fear of serious injury cannot alone justify suppression of free speech and assembly. Men feared witches and burned women. It is the function of speech to free men from the bondage of irrational fears.

Silence at the proper season is wisdom, and better than any speech.

Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another.