I speak to everyone in the same way, whether he is the garbage man or the president of the university.

After all, the only proper intoxication is conversation.

Listen with ears of tolerance, see through the eyes of compassion, speak with language of love.

Anybody can become angry—that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way—that is not within everybody’s power and is not easy.

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.

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

When one remains silent in the face of oppression, one is on the side of the oppressor.

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

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.

Kindly words do not enter so deeply into men as a reputation for kindness.

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

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

You shall judge of a man by his foes as well as by his friends.

You have no idea what your legacy will be. Your legacy is what you do every day. Your legacy is every life you’ve touched, every person whose life was either moved or not. It’s every person you’ve harmed or helped. That’s your legacy.

You cannot have a proud and chivalrous spirit if your conduct is mean and paltry; for whatever a man’s actions are, such must be his spirit.

When I'm good I'm very good, but when I'm bad, I'm better.

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

Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth.

No house should ever be on any hill or on anything. It should be of the hill, belonging to it, so hill and house could live together each the happier for the other.

If you develop a pure and sincere motivation, in you are motivated by a wish to help on the basis of kindness, compassion, and respect, then you can carry on any kind of work, in any field, and function more effectively.

When I was playing before I retired, I never really understood the appreciation and respect that people gave me. People had treated me like a god or something, and that was very embarrassing.

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.

Many people resented my impatience and honesty, but I never cared about acceptance as much as I cared about respect.