Though I sit down now, the time will come when you will hear me.

The lion doesn't turn around when the small dog barks.

If you are ever tempted to look for outside approval, realize that you have compromised your own integrity. If you need a witness, be your own.

Let us resolve to be masters, not victims, of our history, controlling our own destiny without giving way to blind suspicions and emotions.

As leaders we are not only responsible for harvesting our own success, but for cultivating the success of the next generation.

Honor bespeaks worth. Confidence begets trust. Service brings satisfaction. Cooperation proves the quality of leadership.

I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man.

Freedom of information is a fundamental human right...for a nation that is afraid to let its people to judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.

We still have a choice today: nonviolent coexistence or violent coannihilation. This may well be mankind's last chance between chaos and community.

If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been.

I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.

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

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

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

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

Be patient with yourself. Self-growth is tender; it’s holy ground. There’s no greater investment.

Be patient where you sit in the dark. The dawn is coming.

Patience is not simply the ability to wait – it’s how we behave while we’re waiting.

Remember that you ought to behave in life as you would at a banquet. As something is being passed around it comes to you; stretch out your hand, take a portion of it politely. It passes on; do not detain it. Or it has not come to you yet; do not project your desire to meet it, but wait until it comes in front of you. So act toward children, so act toward a wife, so toward office, so toward wealth.

Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.

Truly, to tell lies is not honorable; but when the truth entails tremendous ruin, to speak dishonorably is pardonable.

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

He’s a wonderful talker, who has the art of telling you nothing in a great harangue.

Everything you say should be true but not everything true should be said.

Oh, I offended you with my opinion? You should hear the the ones I keep to myself.

Understanding a question is half an answer.

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.

Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current; no sooner is a thing brought to sight than it is swept by and another takes its place, and this too will be swept away.

You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment.

Time is the scarcest resource and unless it is managed nothing else can be managed.

Your time is limited, don’t waste it living someone else’s life.

There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world; and that is an idea whose time has come.

Live each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influences of each.