"Never make fun of someone who speaks..." - Quote by H Jackson Brown Jr

“Don't judge those who try and fail. Judge only those who fail to try.”

“Acquaintances we meet, enjoy, and can easily leave behind; but friendship grows deep roots.”

“Don't flaunt your success, but don't apologize for it either.”

“Regarding mutual tolerance: It is negative in one sense, but positive in another. It absolutely forbids us to be forward in pronouncing on the meaninglessness of forms of existence other than our own; and it commands us to tolerate, respect, and indulge those whom we see harmlessly interested and happy in their own ways, however unintelligible these may be to us. Hands off.”

“I traveled a good deal all over the world, and I got along pretty good in all these foreign countries, for I have a theory that it's their country and they got a right to run it like they want to.”

“One who makes himself a worm cannot complain afterwards if people step on him.”

“Religions are many and diverse, but reason and goodness are one.”

“Lamps are different, but light is the same.”

“There is a certain percentage of the white population ... if they started having more middle-class black kids who are friends with their kids, eating Cheerios in their kitchen, their attitudes start changing.”