He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words.

I’m a people pleaser. I hold a lot of things in. I’m always making sure everybody is okay. I usually don’t rage; I usually don’t curse.

But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint.

Nobody’s ever said that pins are a tool of diplomacy.

If you believe in science, like I do, you believe that there are certain laws that are always obeyed.

There is more of good nature than of good sense at the bottom of most marriages.

I know nothing, except the fact of my ignorance.

I am not one who was born in the possession of knowledge; I am one who is fond of antiquity, and earnest in seeking it there.

Teach me to feel another’s woe, to hide the fault I see, that mercy I to others show, that mercy show to me.

By and large, language is a tool for concealing the truth.

As a single withered tree, if set aflame, causes a whole forest to burn, so does a rascal son destroy a whole family.

Facebook is really about communicating and telling stories… We think that people can really help spread awareness of organ donation and that they want to participate in this to their friends. And that can be a big part of helping solve the crisis that’s out there.

The marvel of the Bhagavad-Gita is its truly beautiful revelation of life’s wisdom which enables philosophy to blossom into religion.

You learn a lot about someone when you share a meal together.

To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

No one ever teaches well who wants to teach, or governs well who wants to govern.

Decadence is a difficult word to use since it has become little more than a term of abuse applied by critics to anything they do not yet understand or which seems to differ from their moral concepts.

Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know.

Genius might be the ability to say a profound thing in a simple way.

People who have given us their complete confidence believe that they have a right to ours. The inference is false, a gift confers no rights.

Earnestness is enthusiasm tempered by reason.

Give thy thoughts no tongue.

There’s nothing you can know that isn’t known.

An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere, while a pessimist sees only the red stoplight… the truly wise person is colorblind.

The sage does not hoard. The more he helps others, the more he benefits himself, The more he gives to others, the more he gets himself. The Way of Heaven does one good but never does one harm. The Way of the sage is to act but not to compete.

The worst men often give the best advice.

My readers – and I get 400 emails for a day, my readers normally they say, well, you understand me, and I answer, you do understand me also. We are in the same level.

Truth is a good dog; but always beware of barking too close to the heels of an error, lest you get your brains kicked out.

What air is to the body, to feel understood is to the heart.

Meditation is to be aware of every thought and of every feeling, never to say it is right or wrong, but just to watch it and move with it. In that watching, you begin to understand the whole movement of thought and feeling. And out of this awareness comes silence.

The strong man is the one who is able to intercept at will the communication between the senses and the mind.

If one plays good music, people don’t listen and if one plays bad music people don’t talk.

Age appears to be best in four things; old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.

Silence is more eloquent than words.

In the last analysis, what we are communicates far more eloquently than anything we say or do.

I loved writing for kids, I loved talking to children about what I’d written, I don’t want to leave that behind.

Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.

I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.

People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they’re not on your road doesn’t mean they’ve gotten lost.

Seek first to understand, then to be understood.

He who seeks does not find, but he who does not seek will be found.

You cannot step into the same river twice.

It’s so clear that you have to cherish everyone. I think that’s what I get from these older black women, that every soul is to be cherished, that every flower Is to bloom.

The highest form of ignorance is when you reject something you don’t know anything about.

Before God we are all equally wise – and equally foolish.

Wisdom begins in wonder.

It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you’ll do things differently.

It is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.

I’ll be glad to reply to or dodge your questions, depending on what I think will help our election most.

The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.

To realize that you do not understand is a virtue; Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.

Governing a great nation is like cooking a small fish – too much handling will spoil it.

I haven’t gone out of my way to seek advice from people I don’t know.

It is good to express a thing twice right at the outset and so to give it a right foot and also a left one. Truth can surely stand on one leg, but with two it will be able to walk and get around.

A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.

I don’t see the wisdom in modern politicians that I once saw in men like Dean Acheson, David Bruce, or George Marshall. In my day, the northeastern establishment dominated foreign policy formulation, but the composition and distribution of our population is very different today.

The major advances in speed of communication and ability to interact took place more than a century ago. The shift from sailing ships to telegraph was far more radical than that from telephone to email!

From the FA to UEFA and FIFA, there’s a naivety, a lack of knowledge and understanding and packed with people who are out of touch.

Diplomacy is listening to what the other guy needs. Preserving your own position, but listening to the other guy. You have to develop relationships with other people so when the tough times come, you can work together.

With compassion you can die for other people, like the mother who can die for her child. You have the courage to say it because you are not afraid of losing anything, because you know that understanding and love is the foundation of happiness. But if you have fear of losing your status, your position, you will not have the courage to do it.

I’ve always wanted male friends that I could be real intimate with and talk about important things with and be as affectionate with that person as I would be with a girl.