The silence often of pure innocence persuades when speaking fails.

In all negotiations of difficulty, a man may not look to sow and reap at once; but must prepare business, and so ripen it by degrees.

But all my life through, the very insistence on truth has taught me to appreciate the beauty of compromise.

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

No amount of evidence will ever persuade an idiot.

The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.

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

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 right to free speech is more important than the content of the speech.

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

Instead of speaking saintly words we must act them.