It takes time to persuade men to do even what is for their own good.

Let thy speech be short, comprehending much in few words

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

Words are more treacherous and powerful than we think.

The thing I hate about an argument is that it always interrupts a discussion.

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

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.

No problem is so deep that it cannot be overcome, given the will of all parties, through discussion and negotiation rather than force and violence.

Without properly kept accounts it is impossible to maintain truth in its pristine purity.

Religion is a great force—the only real motive force in the world; but what you fellows don't understand is that you must get a man through his own religion and not through yours.

Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn’t have the power to say yes.

My experience has shown me that we win justice quickest by rendering justice to the other party.

Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion.

Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.

Continuous effort — not strength or intelligence — is the key to unlocking our potential.

Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind, spare to us our friends, soften to us our enemies.

You have to be burning with an idea, or a problem, or a wrong that you want to right. If you're not passionate enough from the start, you'll never stick it out.

Never give in, never give in, never, never, never, never-in nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.

Against all odds and despite all the obstacles, we are going to make it.

You may shoot me with your words, you may cut me with your eyes, you may kill me with your hatefulness, but still, like air, I'll rise.

For great and low there's but one test: 'Tis that each man do his best.

Wherever there is injustice, war, discrimination against women, gays and the disadvantaged, I did my best to show up and exert moral persuasion.

A man has to learn that he cannot command things, but that he can command himself; that he cannot coerce the wills of others, but that he can mold and master his own will: and things serve him who serves Truth; people seek guidance of him who is master of himself.

No amount of evidence will ever persuade an idiot.

The greatest remedy for anger is delay.

Your body is precious. It is our vehicle for awakening. Treat it with care.

The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.

You better live your best and act your best and think your best today, for today is the sure preparation for tomorrow and all the other tomorrows that follow.

You will find rest from vain fancies if you perform every act in life as though it were your last.

The past has no power to stop you from being present now. Only your grievance about the past can do that.