Words may show a man’s wit but actions his meaning.

Patience is not simply the ability to wait – it’s how we behave while we’re waiting.

No one but a fool is always right.

It is most unwise for people in love to marry.

You will find as you grow older that courage is the rarest of all qualities to be found in public life.

Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.

We don’t get to know people when they come to us; we must go to them to find out what they are like.

It is the nature of every person to error, but only the fool perseveres in error.

Extremely religious, legalistic people have a criticism or judgment about everyone and everything. They just have a way of bringing people down with what they say.

I didn’t do anything at the Queen, whom I admire.

A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.

Children are a wonderful gift. They have an extraordinary capacity to see into the heart of things and to expose sham and humbug for what they are.

A loving heart is the truest wisdom.

Proselytism is solemn nonsense; it makes no sense. We need to get to know each other, listen to each other and improve our knowledge of the world around us.

Live to learn, and you will really learn to live.

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.

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

That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history.

There is but one way for a president to deal with Congress, and that is continuously, incessantly, and without interruption. If it is really going to work, the relationship has got to be almost incestuous.

In the long-run every Government is the exact symbol of its People, with their wisdom and unwisdom; we have to say, Like People like Government.

Take time for all things: great haste makes great waste.

The less secure a man is, the more likely he is to have extreme prejudice.

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

God has already done everything He’s going to do. The ball is now in your court. If you want success, if you want wisdom, if you want to be prosperous and healthy, you’re going to have to do more than meditate and believe; you must boldly declare words of faith and victory over yourself and your family.

Swearing is industry language. For as long as we’re alive it’s not going to change. You’ve got to be boisterous to get results.

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

A word to the wise is infuriating.

The person who has lived the most is not the one with the most years but the one with the richest experiences.

Misfortune seldom intrudes upon the wise man; his greatest and highest interests are directed by reason throughout the course of life.

Never give a sword to a man who can’t dance.

It is not by muscle, speed, or physical dexterity that great things are achieved, but by reflection, force of character, and judgment.

Myths can’t be translated as they did in their ancient soil. We can only find our own meaning in our own time.

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.

If the present Congress errs in too much talking, how can it be otherwise in a body to which the people send one hundred and fifty lawyers, whose trade it is to question everything, yield nothing, and talk by the hour?

There are three methods to gaining wisdom. The first is reflection, which is the highest. The second is limitation, which is the easiest. The third is experience, which is the bitterest.

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.

No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel, and no man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.

What do you want a meaning for? Life is a desire, not a meaning.

Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.

Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid.

Suit the action to the word, the word to the action.

I don’t know how to work a room. It’s a real skill.

When you’re young, you’re very reckless. Then you get conservative. Then you get reckless again.

When you’re older you want to learn from other people.

It takes a wise man to discover a wise man.

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.

The mouth obeys poorly when the heart murmurs.

An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind.

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

Some minds remain open long enough for the truth not only to enter but to pass on through by way of a ready exit without pausing anywhere along the route.

We just seem to have lost all our morals and principles and values these days.

Rightly defined philosophy is simply the love of wisdom.

Words are loaded pistols.

Some old men, continually praise the time of their youth. In fact, you would almost think that there were no fools in their days, but unluckily they themselves are left as an example.

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.

As long as the people don’t fear the truth, there is hope. For once they fear it, the one who tells it doesn’t stand a chance. And today, truth is still beautiful… but so frightening.

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 index of character so sure as the voice.

He who does not trust enough, Will not be trusted.

I soothe my conscience now with the thought that it is better for hard words to be on paper than that Mummy should carry them in her heart.

We should take care not to make the intellect our goal; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.