In honorable dealing you should consider what you intended, not what you said or thought.

Ought we not to ask the media to agree among themselves a voluntary code of conduct, under which they would not say or show anything which could assist the terrorists‘ morale or their cause while the hijack lasted.

He that would live in peace and at ease must not speak all he knows or all he sees.

Dreams are the guiding words of the soul. Why should I henceforth not love my dreams and not make their riddling images into objects of my daily consideration?

No one knows who is listening, say nothing you would not wish put in the newspapers.

One of the great attractions of patriotism – it fulfills our worst wishes. In the person of our nation we are able, vicariously, to bully and cheat. Bully and cheat, what’s more, with a feeling that we are profoundly virtuous.

Most negotiators are trying to get their way.

The precepts of the law are these: to live honestly, to injure no one, and to give everyone else his due.

He has committed the crime who profits by it.

The people to fear are not those who disagree with you, but those who disagree with you and are too cowardly to let you know.

I used to tell my husband that, if he could make me ‚understand‘ something, it would be clear to all the other people in the country.

The best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it.

When you make as many speeches and you talk as much as I do and you get away from the text, it’s always a possibility to get a few words tangled here and there.

When I am getting ready to reason with a man, I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself and what I am going to say and two-thirds about him and what he is going to say.

Ethics is the activity of man directed to secure the inner perfection of his own personality.

No one means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.

I don’t have faith in young people any more. I don’t waste time trying to communicate with them.

The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked me what I thought, and attended to my answer.

Always prefer the plain direct word to the long, vague one. Don’t implement promises, but keep them.

It is now quite lawful for a Catholic woman to avoid pregnancy by a resort to mathematics, though she is still forbidden to resort to physics or chemistry.

I’m the most boring person to talk to.

A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business.

I don’t think people are going to talk in the future. They’re going to communicate through eye contact, body language, emojis, signs.

I did my utmost to ensure that everyone below me in the chain of command felt comfortable approaching me with concerns, ideas, thoughts, and even disagreements.

A yawn is a silent shout.

If you can’t move and talk to people that you see, it’s not really my scene.

Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another.

The essence of lying is in deception, not in words.

He who does not prevent a crime when he can, encourages it.

Charity creates a multitude of sins.

Justice in the life and conduct of the State is possible only as first it resides in the hearts and souls of the citizens.

The fact is that a man who wants to act virtuously in every way necessarily comes to grief among so many who are not virtuous.

The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.

Where is the justice of political power if it executes the murderer and jails the plunderer, and then itself marches upon neighboring lands, killing thousands and pillaging the very hills?

Quarrel? Nonsense; we have not quarreled. If one is not to get into a rage sometimes, what is the good of being friends?

I actually started off majoring in computer science, but I knew right away I wasn’t going to stay with it. It was because I had this one professor who was the loneliest, saddest man I’ve ever known. He was a programmer, and I knew that I didn’t want to do whatever he did. So after that, I switched to Communications.

If you do not wish a man to do a thing, you had better get him to talk about it; for the more men talk, the more likely they are to do nothing else.

In one case out of a hundred a point is excessively discussed because it is obscure; in the ninety-nine remaining it is obscure because it is excessively discussed.

In order that all men may be taught to speak the truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it.

Only a man’s character is the real criterion of worth.

We are justified in enforcing good morals, for they belong to all mankind; but we are not justified in enforcing good manners, for good manners always mean our own manners.

Capital punishment is as fundamentally wrong as a cure for crime as charity is wrong as a cure for poverty.

Successful and fortunate crime is called virtue.

Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something.

Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what’s right.

When people are connected, we can just do some great things. They have the opportunity to get access to jobs, education, health, communications. We have the opportunity to bring the people we care about closer to us. It really makes a big difference.

I try to speak in everyday language. I feel like God has gifted me to take Bible principles and make them practical.

The difference between a stranger sending you a message that you might be interested in at a very low volume level, no repetition, just sending it to very few people, and that being done as spam – those things get close enough that you want to be careful never to filter out something that’s legitimate.

You are not only responsible for what you say, but also for what you do not say.

Do not impose on others what you yourself do not desire.

Sincere words are not fine; fine words are not sincere.

If we do not maintain justice, justice will not maintain us.

There is still much debate about whether torture has been effective in eliciting information – the assumption being, apparently, that if it is effective, then it may be justified.

The dropping of bombs on people – isn’t that terrorism?

People make suggestions on what to say all the time. I’ll give you an example; I don’t read what’s handed to me. People say, ‚Here, here’s your speech, or here’s an idea for a speech.‘ They’re changed. Trust me.

You might be the funniest guy in the world, but if you don’t have anything to talk about, people are eventually going to gravitate towards the guy that’s actually saying something.

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

But behavior in the human being is sometimes a defense, a way of concealing motives and thoughts, as language can be a way of hiding your thoughts and preventing communication.

Words are more powerful than some noises. Noises won’t last long. Lyrics are so important, and people don’t realise that.

I know of nothing more despicable and pathetic than a man who devotes all the hours of the waking day to the making of money for money’s sake.

In law a man is guilty when he violates the rights of others. In ethics he is guilty if he only thinks of doing so.