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

Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience.

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

Thanks to words, we have been able to rise above the brutes; and thanks to words, we have often sunk to the level of the demons.

Born, n. a person who talks when you wish him to listen.

Never miss a good chance to shut up.

Listening is a magnetic and strong thing, a creative force. The friends who listen to us are the ones we move toward. When we are listened to, it creates us, makes us unfold and expand.

Understanding a question is half an answer.

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

Listening, not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery.

You will never be able to escape from your heart. So it is better to listen to what it has to say.

Do not hire a man who does your work for money but him who does it for love of it.

The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved.

To feel the intimacy of brothers is a marvelous thing in life.

Love inspires, illumines, designates and leads the way.

You who suffer because you love, love still more. To die of love, is to live by it.

Master of human destinies am I! Fame, love, and fortune on my footsteps wait.

Only people who are capable of loving strongly can also suffer great sorrow, but this same necessity of loving serves to counteract their grief and heals them.

I’m fascinated with myself and love hearing the sound of my own voice. I’d like to hear what I have to say. A lot of people don’t like being alone because they truly don’t like themselves, but I love me.

Speech is civilization itself. The word, even the most contradictory word, preserves contact—it is silence which isolates.

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.

A Constitution of Government once changed from Freedom, can never be restored. Liberty, once lost, is lost forever.

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

The day will soon come when I will show the world that the transmission of power and speech without the aid of any wires is possible.