My mother always taught us that if people don’t agree with you, the important thing is to listen to them. But if you’ve listened to them carefully and you still think that you’re right, then you must have the courage of your convictions.

Integrity has no need of rules.

The writing is important, but the way you say the line and the pause you give it, the facial expression – all of that is very important.

People must have righteous principals in the first, and then they will not fail to perform virtuous actions.

Next time I see you, remind me not to talk to you.

Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.

People have really gotten comfortable not only sharing more information and different kinds, but more openly and with more people – and that social norm is just something that has evolved over time.

Truth cannot be brought down; rather, the individual must make the effort to ascend to it. You cannot bring the mountaintop to the valley. If you would attain to the mountaintop, you must pass through the valley, climb the steeps, unafraid of the dangerous precipices.

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

Never give an order that can’t be obeyed.

Morality is the basis of things and truth is the substance of all morality.

No, it’s not a very good story – its author was too busy listening to other voices to listen as closely as he should have to the one coming from inside.

The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

I don’t think anything about a personal legacy. I mean, those words would never come out of my mouth unless I just repeated them. Those things have never been important to me.

You’ve got to work things out in the cloakroom, and when you’ve got them worked out, you can debate a little before you vote.

Daring to set boundaries is about having the courage to love ourselves, even when we risk disappointing others.

Woman begins by resisting a man’s advances and ends by blocking his retreat.

If everything isn’t black and white, I say, ‚Why the hell not?‘

A good name is rather to be chosen than riches.

Facebook and Instagram are both really popular with teens, both in the U.S. and globally across the world. I think what you’re starting to see is that there are all these different ways that people want to share and communicate.

Religion, any religion, no matter what sort of wonderful religion, never be universal. So now education is universal, so we have to sort of find ways and means through education system, from kindergarten up to university level, to make awareness these good things, the values, inner values.

If you’re yelling you’re the one who’s lost control of the conversation.

When I’m nervous, I stutter, and I had to keep stopping and starting.

I think some of my colleagues‘ spicier lines are distracting. They draw attention away from what the justice is trying to say.

It may happen sometimes that a long debate becomes the cause of a longer friendship. Commonly, those who dispute with one another at last agree.

What is permissible is not always honorable.

So when these people sell out, even though they get fabulously rich, they’re gypping themselves out of one of the potentially most rewarding experiences of their unfolding lives. Without it, they may never know their values or how to keep their newfound wealth in perspective.

You can stroke people with words.

I would like to be remembered as a guy who had a set of priorities, and was willing to live by those priorities. In terms of accomplishments, my biggest accomplishment is that I kept the country safe amidst a real danger.

War is what happens when language fails.

It has always been my belief that a man should do his best, regardless of how much he receives for his services, or the number of people he may be serving or the class of people served.

I’ve had moments when I’ve thought about somebody, picked up the phone to call them and they are on the line already, and I think that maybe there’s some vibration, some connection.

In a certain way, it’s the sound of the words, the inflection and the way the song is sung and the way it fits the melody and the way the syllables are on the tongue that has as much of the meaning as the actual, literal words.

It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.

My parents taught me service – not by saying, but by doing. That was my culture, the culture of my family.

The greatest destroyer of peace is abortion because if a mother can kill her own child, what is left for me to kill you and you to kill me? There is nothing between.

Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can’t, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it.

At the end of the day, when it comes time to make that decision, as president, all you have to guide you are your values, and your vision, and the life experiences that make you who you are.

Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed we possessed.

If you’re a politician, you might want to learn the Buddhist way of negotiation. Restoring communication and bringing back reconciliation is clear and concrete in Buddhism.

A real gentleman, even if he loses everything he owns, must show no emotion. Money must be so far beneath a gentleman that it is hardly worth troubling about.

I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.

Sometimes cameras and television are good to people and sometimes they aren’t. I don’t know if its the way you say it, or how you look.

I am not going to be a mouthpiece for language that I detest.

Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result.

I’ll think I have a few wonderful friends and all of a sudden, ooh, here it comes. They do a lot of things. They talk about you to the press, to their friends, tell stories, and you know, it’s disappointing.

Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well.

Power is given only to those who dare to lower themselves and pick it up. Only one thing matters, one thing; to be able to dare!

If you wish to know the mind of a man, listen to his words.

Anything’s possible if you’ve got enough nerve.

All sciences are now under the obligation to prepare the ground for the future task of the philosopher, which is to solve the problem of value, to determine the true hierarchy of values.

People use irony as a defense mechanism.

When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.

I don’t know about you, but most of my exchanges with cashiers are not that meaningful.

When the people we love stop paying attention, trust begins to slip away and hurt starts seeping in.

Sometimes I’ve been to a party where no one spoke to me for a whole evening. The men, frightened by their wives or sweeties, would give me a wide berth. And the ladies would gang up in a corner to discuss my dangerous character.

Though I do manage to mumble around in about seven or eight languages, English remains the most beautiful of languages. It will do anything.

I there represent that I sent notice of my method to Mr. Leibnitz before he sent notice of his method to me, and left him to make it appear that he had found his method before the date of my letter.

I think it’s fair to say that personal computers have become the most empowering tool we’ve ever created. They’re tools of communication, they’re tools of creativity, and they can be shaped by their user.

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

At first, I was scared to show fear because you can never be sure how people will perceive you. But I dared myself to do that, to stand out. Now I’ll talk about being beaten up or robbed or making a stupid decision because of a girl or whatever.