When a person speaks listen to their actions.

The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action.

You have no idea what your legacy will be. Your legacy is what you do every day. Your legacy is every life you’ve touched, every person whose life was either moved or not. It’s every person you’ve harmed or helped. That’s your legacy.

There is a time in every man’s education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide; that he must take for better, for worse, as his portion; that, though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till.

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

However many holy words you read, However many you speak, What good will they do you If you do not act on upon them?

Think lovingly, speak lovingly, act lovingly, and every need shall be supplied.

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

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.

It takes two years to learn to speak and sixty to learn to keep quiet.

Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.

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

Most conversations are just alternating monologues. The question is, is there any real listening going on.

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

Meaningful silence is better than meaningless words.

Silence is one of the great arts of conversation.

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.

When angry, count to ten before you speak; if very angry, one hundred.

Some people’s idea of free speech is that they are free to say what they like, but if anyone says anything back, that is an outrage.

The thought of only being a creature of the present and the past was troubling. I longed for a future, too, with hope in it. The desire to be free, awakened my determination to act, to think, and to speak.

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

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

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.