Whatever advice you give, be brief.

Races are not won by the fastest athletes. Fights are not won by the strongest men. But the races are won and the fights are won by those who want to win most of all.

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

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

Let thy speech be short, comprehending much in few words

Understanding a question is half an answer.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or the right of the people to peacefully to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances. -First Amendment

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