If you must speak ill of another, do not speak it, write it in the sand near the water’s edge.

Men always want to be a woman’s first love – women like to be a man’s last romance.

Language is a weapon of politicians, but language is a weapon in much of human affairs.

A saint is tolerant and is attentive to the pleadings of other human beings, not only to spoken messages but to unspoken messages as well.

I’m too busy acting like I’m not Naive. I’ve seen it all, I was here first.

I think we have to own the fears that we have of each other, and then, in some practical way, some daily way, figure out how to see people differently than the way we were brought up to.

Wisdom ceases to be wisdom when it becomes too proud to weep, too grave to laugh, and too selfish to seek other than itself.

It is hardly an exaggeration to say that oral teachers and sign teachers found it difficult to sit down in the same room without quarreling, and there was intolerance upon both sides. To say ‚oral method‘ to a sign teacher was like waving a red flag in the face of a bull, and to say ‚sign language‘ to an oralist aroused the deepest resentment.

Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it.

Have no fear of perfection – you’ll never reach it.

It always seems to me so odd that when a man dies, he takes out with him all the knowledge that he has got in his lifetime whilst sowing his wild oats or winning successes. And he leaves his sons or younger brothers to go through all the work of learning it over again from their own experience.

We want everybody to act like adults, quit playing games, realize that it’s not just my way or the highway.

To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one’s family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one’s own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him.

First, I want to pay tribute to Diana myself. She was an exceptional and gifted human being. In good times and bad, she never lost her capacity to smile and laugh, nor to inspire others with her warmth and kindness. I admired and respected her – for her energy and commitment to others, and especially for her devotion to her two boys.

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

Pressed into service means pressed out of shape.

Who is the most sensible person? The one who finds what is to their own advantage in all that happens to them.

If you can’t convince them, confuse them.

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

If you would be loved, love, and be loveable.

Except for the young or very happy, I can’t say I am sorry for anyone who dies.

In human intercourse the tragedy begins, not when there is misunderstanding about words, but when silence is not understood.

A lie cannot live.

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

We have language and they do not. Chimps communicate by embracing, patting, looking – all these things. And they have lots of sounds. But they cannot sit and discuss. They cannot teach about things that are not present, as far as we know.

I’m grateful to intelligent people. That doesn’t mean educated. That doesn’t mean intellectual. I mean really intelligent. What black old people used to call ‚mother wit‘ means intelligence that you had in your mother’s womb. That’s what you rely on. You know what’s right to do.

The blessed of us must save the less of us. I’m blessed, and yeah, I’m planning to go to Heaven.

The most worth-while thing is to try to put happiness into the lives of others.

I have a family, loving aunts, and a good home. No, on the surface I seem to have everything except my one true friend. All I think about when I’m with friends is having a good time. I can’t bring myself to talk about anything but ordinary everyday things. We don’t seem to be able to get any closer, and that’s the problem.

The fact is that when you do something from your heart, you leave a heart print.

An empty stomach is not a good political adviser.

I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.

Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.

Compassionate listening is to help the other side suffer less. If we realize that other people are the same people as we are, we are no longer angry at them.

Hear reason, or she’ll make you feel her.

All our words are but crumbs that fall down from the feast of the mind.

An unimaginative person can neither be reverent or kind.

Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace. Money will come if we seek first the Kingdom of God – the rest will be given.

Before I speak, I have something important to say.

It is not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, that the lover of knowledge is reluctant to step into its waters.

For if you love those who love you, what reward have you? Do not even the tax collectors do the same?

The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.

A good thing to remember is somebody’s got it a lot worse than we do.

In the normal flow of a conversation, our attention is divided. We hear parts of what other people are saying, in order to follow and keep the conversation going. At the same time, we’re planning what we’ll say next, some exciting story of our own.

A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool.

That’s the true spirit of Christmas; people being helped by people other than me.

Littera scripta manet – ‚The written word will remain‘. That’s true, but it won’t be that much comfort to me.

Is there anyone so wise as to learn by the experience of others?

The poorest people are the sweetest people.

When I am talking to people who I feel don’t like me or are mean, I get really shy, and I kind of curl up personality wise.

The biggest disease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis, but rather the feeling of being unwanted.

Any man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man.

To jaw-jaw is always better than to war-war.

I say there is no darkness but ignorance.

There are a lot of self-imposed restrictions by people who somehow believe they have to fall in with a certain military cant. There was always a sense that we had to put things into words that would touch our troops‘ hearts, not just their heads.

What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others.

Forty is the old age of youth, fifty is the youth of old age.

It is impossible to live a pleasant life without living wisely and well and justly. And it is impossible to live wisely and well and justly without living a pleasant life.

The only time people dislike gossip is when you gossip about them.

Public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed.

Luckily for me, people don’t scream at me that much in my everyday life.