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

It is good to express a thing twice right at the outset and so to give it a right foot and also a left one. Truth can surely stand on one leg, but with two it will be able to walk and get around.

Never hold discussions with the monkey when the organ grinder is in the room.

There are always three speeches, for every one you actually gave. The one you practiced, the one you gave, and the one you wish you gave.

George Washington, as a boy, was ignorant of the commonest accomplishments of youth. He could not even lie.

Knowledge will give you power, but character respect.

Though silence is not necessarily an admission, it is not a denial, either.

When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but creatures of emotion.

Men show their character in nothing more clearly than what they think laughable.

Honor has not to be won; it must only not be lost.

Verbosity leads to unclear, inarticulate things.

I used to stutter really badly. Everybody thinks it’s funny. And it’s not funny. It’s not.

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.

Be not a slave of words.

I’m not a serious person, and I don’t like serious people.

When a thoughtless or unkind word is spoken, best tune out.

There is always another way to say the same thing that doesn’t look at all like the way you said it before. I don’t know what the reason for this is. I think it is somehow a representation of the simplicity of nature.

It’s much more fun to play something you’re nothing like than what you are… It’s much easier to hide yourself in a character.

The most successful politician is he who says what the people are thinking most often in the loudest voice.

People often think I’m a faker, but I’m usually honest, in a certain way – in such a way that often nobody believes me!

The happiest conversation is that of which nothing is distinctly remembered, but a general effect of pleasing impression.

If women were particular about men’s characters, they would never get married at all.

Never give an order that can’t be obeyed.

Sometimes when you take strong stands, if you’re not called to do it, you’re dividing the audience you’re trying to reach.

People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they’ll have good voice boxes in case there’s ever anything really meaningful to say.

I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world.

He is a hard man who is only just, and a sad one who is only wise.

I like it when someone tells me ‚I don’t agree.‘ This is a true collaborator. When they say ‚Oh, how great, how great, how great,‘ that’s not useful.

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.

In the grip of a neurological disorder, I am fast losing control of words even as my relationship with the world has been reduced to them.

Facebook is really about communicating and telling stories… We think that people can really help spread awareness of organ donation and that they want to participate in this to their friends. And that can be a big part of helping solve the crisis that’s out there.

A woman will doubt everything you say except it be compliments to herself.

As the father of eight children, I’m quite convinced that each individual arrives here with their own unique personality. We are intended here from an invisible held of infinite potentiality. That which has no form, has no boundaries – it’s the I that’s in the ever-changing body.

There should be an honest attempt at the reconciliation of differences before resorting to combat.

Nothing shows a man’s character more than what he laughs at.

Leadership to me means duty, honor, country. It means character, and it means listening from time to time.

A good leader can engage in a debate frankly and thoroughly, knowing that at the end he and the other side must be closer, and thus emerge stronger. You don’t have that idea when you are arrogant, superficial, and uninformed.

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

Being a good listener is absolutely critical to being a good leader; you have to listen to the people who are on the front line.

Nothing can affect my voice, it’s so bad.

Stage actors are usually much more conscious of speaking up and making sure that everyone can hear in the back of the theatre; a film actor probably thinks of that a little less.

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

An honest man’s the noblest work of God.

We think when God speaks to us, there’s going to be a boom out of Heaven or we’re going to get some chill bumps, but I really believe God’s talking to us all the time. He’s talking to us right in here. I call it our heart, our conscience, but it’s the Holy Spirit talking to us.

I don’t like typing messages on my phone. Some people get used to it.

I prefer tongue-tied knowledge to ignorant loquacity.

I very rarely think in words at all. A thought comes, and I may try to express it in words afterwards.

Debates, I hate.

Today we affirm a new commitment to live out our nation’s promise through civility, courage, compassion and character.

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.

Sense perceptions can be and often are false and deceptive, however real they may appear to us. Where there is realization outside the senses, it is infallible. It is proved not by extraneous evidence but in the transformed conduct and character of those who have felt the real presence of God within.

People like to hear the word ‚love.‘

When I got somethin‘ to say, I’ll say it.

The difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large matter – ‚tis the difference between the lightning-bug and the lightning.

Character is always known. Thefts never enrich; alms never impoverish; murder will speak out of stone walls.

A fundamentalist can’t bring himself or herself to negotiate with people who disagree with them because the negotiating process itself is an indication of implied equality.

It is very hard to not be able to engage with people in a real and honest way because they either want something from me, or they see me as something that I simply am not.

Before a man speaks it is always safe to assume that he is a fool. After he speaks, it is seldom necessary to assume it.

Good leaders must communicate vision clearly, creatively, and continually. However, the vision doesn’t come alive until the leader models it.

Journalism makes you think fast. You have to speak to people in all walks of life. Especially local journalism.

Every man’s reputation proceeds from those of his own household.