If you’re really satisfied with your position on something, you just say, ‚Hey;‘ you just very calmly present something.

He who has faith has… an inward reservoir of courage, hope, confidence, calmness, and assuring trust that all will come out well – even though to the world it may appear to come out most badly.

Too often in life, something happens and we blame other people for us not being happy or satisfied or fulfilled. So the point is, we all have choices, and we make the choice to accept people or situations or to not accept situations.

Sometimes I wonder if we shall ever grow up in our politics and say definite things which mean something, or whether we shall always go on using generalities to which everyone can subscribe, and which mean very little.

Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion.

If you want to get each individual’s honest opinion, you don’t want that opinion to be influenced by others who are present, much less allow a group to coordinate what they are going to say.

I’m at peace with what I’m doing, I feel good with what I wake up doing and about my lifestyle.

Those who write clearly have readers, those who write obscurely have commentators.

Can people who hunger so desperately for what other people have ever have enough?

Kids are watching us. I experience it every single day. They hang on my every word, what I wear, what I say.

Style is that which indicates how the writer takes himself and what he is saying. It is the mind skating circles around itself as it moves forward.

For one swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short time, does not make a man blessed and happy.

Everything becomes a little different as soon as it is spoken out loud.

We awaken in others the same attitude of mind we hold toward them.

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

‚Good English‘ is whatever educated people talk; so that what is good in one place or time would not be so in another.

A leader who confines his role to his people’s experience dooms himself to stagnation; a leader who outstrips his people’s experience runs the risk of not being understood.

Money doesn’t make you happy. I now have $50 million but I was just as happy when I had $48 million.

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

The wise ones fashioned speech with their thought, sifting it as grain is sifted through a sieve.

He who knows that enough is enough will always have enough.

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.

He who has made a fair compact with poverty is rich.

Give thy thoughts no tongue.

We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak.

Material things are delightful, but they’re not important.

Blessed is he that expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.

I feel like I was writing as I was learning to talk. Writing was always a go-to form of communication. And I knew I could sing from being in tune with the radio.

Both times I was in India, I could not get people to listen to each other. I had to literally tell people to listen to each other and tell them that they can’t get creative and find alternate solutions if they don’t listen to each other. There’s a lot of arguing and justifying.

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.

If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.

If you want a love message to be heard, it has got to be sent out. To keep a lamp burning, we have to keep putting oil in it.

The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure for it is occupation.

I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people.

When words are scarce they are seldom spent in vain.

Our most tragic error may have been our inability to establish a rapport and a confidence with the press and television with the communication media. I don’t think the press has understood me.

I don’t understand why or how we can bully each other.

I’m terrified of losing my voice.

I meant what I said and I said what I meant.

It’s never happened in history that every region in the world could affect every other region simultaneously. The Roman empire and the Chinese empire didn’t know much about each other and had no means of interacting. Now we have every continent able to reach every other.

Every once in a while, you let a word or phrase out and you want to catch it and bring it back. You can’t do that. It’s gone, gone forever.

There is no greater index of character so sure as the voice.

But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.

Debates, I hate.

There is one way to have a short but exciting conversation with me, and that is to move too slow.

The most dangerous word in any human tongue is the word for brother. It’s inflammatory.

Each day we understand better what the Indians say, and they us, so that very often we are intelligible to each other.

We live in an image society. Speeches are not what anybody cares about; what they care about is the picture.

I would never exchange my life with anybody else’s.

When it comes to gossip, I have to readily admit men are as guilty as women.

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!

I meet people overseas that know five languages – that the only language I’m comfortable in is English.

I know that there are millions of Americans who are content with their health care coverage – they like their plan and, most importantly, they value their relationship with their doctor.

I have a nice office. I have a nice house… So I’m not denying myself some great things. I just don’t happen to have expensive hobbies.

If you can’t convince them, confuse them.

Content makes poor men rich; discontent makes rich men poor.

When you have good friends you’ve been around, every time they talk, you don’t give them your full attention. You don’t look them in the eye and stop. Half the time, you’re listening, half the time, you are ignoring them.

One merit of poetry few persons will deny: it says more and in fewer words than prose.

You don’t write because you want to say something, you write because you have something to say.

There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible.

I guess every single word I’ve ever said is going to be dissected now.