In silence man can most readily preserve integrity.

People don’t get along because they fear each other. People fear each other because they don’t know each other. They don’t know each other because they have not properly communicated with each other.

One's philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes.

Understanding a question is half an answer.

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.

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.

As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.

If you are ever tempted to look for outside approval, realize that you have compromised your integrity.

When you see that in order to produce, you need to obtain permission from men who produce nothing - When you see that money is flowing to those who deal, not in goods, butt in favors - When you see that men get richer by graft and by pull than by work, and your laws don’t protect you against them, but protect them against you - When you see corruption being rewarded and honesty becoming a self-sacrifice - You may know that your society is doomed.

The world will ask you who you are, and if you don't know, the world will tell you.

Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.

Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it.

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.

The greatest leader is not the the one who necessarily does the greatest things. He is the one who gets people to do the greatest things. He is

Only 3 things happen naturally in organizations: friction, confusion, and under performance. Everything else requires leadership.

Surely what a man does when he is in an uncomfortable situation is the best evidence for the sort of man he is.

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

A good head and good heart are always a formidable combination. But when you add to that a literate tongue or pen, then you have something very special...

Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.

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.

I am not afraid of an army of lions led by a sheep; I am afraid of an army of sheep led by a lion.

Teach your child to hold his tongue; he'll learn fast enough to speak.

Meaningful silence is better than meaningless words.

A leader who does not take advice is not a leader.

Silence is one of the great arts of conversation.

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

When there is silence one finds the anchor of the universe within oneself.

One can acquire everything in solitude—except character.

The Son of God became a man to enable men to become sons of God.

If you can't pay for a thing, don't buy it. If you can't get paid for it, don't sell it. Do this, and you will have calm and drowsy nights, with all of the good business you have now and none of the bad.

Be grateful for your life, every detail of it, and your face will come to shine like a sun, and everyone who sees it will be made glad and peaceful.

I have arrived. I am home in the here, in the now. I am solid. I am free. In the ultimate I dwell.

I love people. I love my family, my children… but inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that’s where you renew your springs that never dry up.

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

Feelings come and go like clouds in a windy sky. Conscious breathing is my anchor.

Thus not only does democracy make every man forget his ancestors, but it hides his descendants and separates his contemporaries from him; it throws him back forever upon himself alone and threatens in the end to confine him entirely within solitude of his own heart.

A place for everything and everything in its place.

Don't be in a hurry to condemn because he doesn't do what you do or think as you do or as fast. There is a time when you didn't know what you know today.

The clearest way in the Universe is through a forest wilderness.