Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.

  Author: Benjamin Franklin (1706-90), American public official, writer, scientist, helped draft U.S. Constitution  


Be wiser than other people, if you can, but do not tell them so.

  Author: Lord Chesterfield  


Tact is the art of building a fire under people without making their blood boil.

  Author: Franklin P. Jones  


Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.

  Author: George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950), Irish-born British playwright, founder of "Fabian Society"  


The notion of political correctness declares certain topics, certain expressions, even certain gestures off-limits. What began as a crusade for civility has soured into a cause of conflict and even censorship.

  Author: George Herbert Walker Bush (b. 1924), US President, Ambassador to China  


A community is like a ship; everyone ought to be prepared to take the helm.

  Author: Henrik Ibsen  


Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are capable of being.

  Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe  


People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.

  Author: John Harrigan  


Civility costs nothing and buys everything.

  Author: Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1689-1762), English society figure, letter writer  


History is made at night. Character is what you are in the dark.

  Author: Lord John Whorfin  


The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.

  Author: Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919), 26th US President, Republican  


It's nice to be important but it's more important to be nice.

  Author: Trini Lopez  


We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.

  Author: Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965), British statesman, prime minister, author