The way you talk to yourself will determine how you speak with others.

Noise proves nothing. Often a hen who has merely laid an egg crackles as if she had laid an asteroid.

Where words fail, music speaks.

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

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.

To effectively communicate, we must realize that we are all different in the way we perceive the world and use this understanding as a guide to our communication with others.

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

A man must stand erect, not be kept erect by others.

Not in the clamor of the crowded street, not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves, are triumph and defeat.

No one can draw more out of things, books included, than he already knows. A man has no ears for that to which experience has given him no access.

Peaces comes from within. Do not seek it without.

Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it we have always to combat with ourselves.

We can secure other people’s approval, if we do right and try hard; but our own is worth a hundred of it, and no way has been found out of securing that.

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

If everyone was satisfied with himself, there would be no heroes.

If you spend your time hoping someone will suffer the consequences for what they did to your heart, then you’re allowing them to hurt you a second time in your mind.

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.

Great wisdom is generous, petty wisdom is contentious. Great speech is impassioned, small speech in cantankerous.

Man's tongue is soft, and bone doth lack; yet a stroke therewith may break a man's back.

Instead of speaking saintly words we must act them.

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

The only way to make sure people you agree with can speak is to support the rights of people you don’t agree with.

It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably gracious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.