Keep silence for the most part, and speak only when you must, and then briefly.

That’s the biggest gift I can give anybody: ‚Wake up, be aware of who you are, what you’re doing and what you can do to prevent yourself from becoming ill.‘

When you look at the sun during your walking meditation, the mindfulness of the body helps you to see that the sun is in you; without the sun there is no life at all and suddenly you get in touch with the sun in a different way.

If the tongue had not been framed for articulation, man would still be a beast in the forest.

A bore is a person who opens his mouth and puts his feats in it.

I am mindful not only of preserving executive powers for myself, but for predecessors as well.

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.

I’m going to save my public voice largely for the issues where I have some depth.

A lack of transparency results in distrust and a deep sense of insecurity.

Your Highest Self is not just an idea that sounds lofty and spiritual. It is a way of being. It is the very first principle that you must come to understand and embrace as you move toward attracting to you that which you want and need for this parenthesis in eternity that you know as your life.

The man who makes everything that leads to happiness depends upon himself, and not upon other men, has adopted the very best plan for living happily. This is the man of moderation, the man of manly character and of wisdom.

Silence is the virtue of fools.

Broadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words best of all.

Everything in excess is opposed to nature.

Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love; this is the eternal rule.

Among the letters my readers write me, there is a certain category which is continuously growing, and which I see as a symptom of the increasing intellectualization of the relationship between readers and literature.

I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me.

When words are scarce they are seldom spent in vain.

If we accept being talked to any kind of a way, then we are telling ourselves we are not quite worth the best. And if we have the effrontery to talk to anybody with less than courtesy, we tell ourselves and the world we are not very intelligent.

The Internet has compromised the quality of debate.

I’ve stopped drinking, but only while I’m asleep.

It’s hard for me to grasp the concept of somebody being nervous when I’m talking to them.

Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn both arts.

No valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.

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

Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.

No one ever doubts that I mean what I say. The problem is I sometimes say all that I mean.

It is the sign of a great mind to dislike greatness, and to prefer things in measure to things in excess.

A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be.

My name can’t be that tough to pronounce!

The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be.

Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

I’m not really good at fun-to-know, human interest stuff. We’re not ‚celebrities‘, whose life itself is a performance. Good or bad or ugly, we are our words. They’re what people meet.

When people get taken over by the ego to such an extent, there is nothing else in their mind except the ego. They can no longer feel or sense their humanity – what they share with other human beings, or even with other life forms on the planet. They are so identified with concepts in their minds that other human beings become concepts as well.

There was one incident at a movie theater where my girl got mad at these guys who were talking behind us. I never looked back there, but she was like, ‚Will you all just shut up!‘ And I just got up and moved three rows in front. She was like, ‚What are you doing?!‘ I was like, ‚You better get up here! I don’t play the fighting games.‘

I don’t hate women – they just sometimes make me mad.

I prefer tongue-tied knowledge to ignorant loquacity.

I realized, ‚Yo, I can’t do anything in moderation. I don’t know how.‘

I boldly assert, in fact I think I know, that a lot of friendships and connections absolutely depend upon a sort of shared language, or slang. Not necessarily designed to exclude others, this can establish a certain comity and, even after a long absence, re-establish it in a second.

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.

In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

There is a fine balance between honoring the past and losing yourself in it. For example, you can acknowledge and learn from mistakes you made, and then move on and refocus on the now. It is called forgiving yourself.

I have an answering machine in my car. It says, I’m home now. But leave a message and I’ll call when I’m out.

Trust is the glue of life. It’s the most essential ingredient in effective communication. It’s the foundational principle that holds all relationships.

If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.

Smiles are the language of love.

The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.

The reason why men do not obey us, is because they see the mud at the bottom of our eye.

If you can talk, you can write.

I have found that no exertion of the legs can bring two minds much nearer to one another.

You have to be careful about how much you reveal to people that look up to you so much.

Getting stress out of your life takes more than prayer alone. You must take action to make changes and stop doing whatever is causing the stress. You can learn to calm down in the way you handle things.

Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.

In the morning, I practice 15 minutes of yoga.

I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for everyone, best both for the body and the mind.

And thou wilt give thyself relief, if thou doest every act of thy life as if it were the last.

After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.

Remind yourself that winning an argument or proving your point really gets you nowhere in the long run. Win through your actions, not your words.

When I tell a child something the first time, I’m nice. The 15th time, I start to get aggravated.

I think we’re still in a muddle with our language, because once you get words and a spoken language it gets harder to communicate.

Meditation helps me to calm down.