Persuasion is often more effectual than force.

A good head and good heart are always a formidable combination. But when you add to that a literate tongue or pen, then you have something very special...

A fool contributes nothing worth hearing and takes offense to everything.

People don’t get along because they fear each other. People fear each other because they don’t know each other. They don’t know each other because they have not properly communicated with each other.

Noise proves nothing. Often a hen who has merely laid an egg crackles as if she had laid an asteroid.

No problem is so deep that it cannot be overcome, given the will of all parties, through discussion and negotiation rather than force and violence.

When one remains silent in the face of oppression, one is on the side of the oppressor.

Surely human affairs would be far happier if the power in men to be silent were the same as that to speak. But experience more than sufficiently teaches that men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues.

You will make all kinds of mistakes; but as long as you are generous and true, and also fierce, you cannot hurt the world or even seriously distress her.

We still have a choice today: nonviolent coexistence or violent coannihilation. This may well be mankind's last chance between chaos and community.

My experience has shown me that we win justice quickest by rendering justice to the other party.

But all my life through, the very insistence on truth has taught me to appreciate the beauty of compromise.

We don't point a pistol at our own forehead. That is not the way to conduct negotiations.

Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.

A man has to learn that he cannot command things, but that he can command himself; that he cannot coerce the wills of others, but that he can mold and master his own will: and things serve him who serves Truth; people seek guidance of him who is master of himself.

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

Without properly kept accounts it is impossible to maintain truth in its pristine purity.

No amount of evidence will ever persuade an idiot.

Religion is a great force—the only real motive force in the world; but what you fellows don't understand is that you must get a man through his own religion and not through yours.

Peace by persuasion has a pleasant sound, but I think we should not be able to work it. We should have to tame the human race first, and history seems to show that that cannot be done.

Gentleness is strength under control. It is the ability to stay calm, no matter what happens.

If we all can persevere, if we can in every land and office look beyond our own shores and ambitions, then surely the age will dawn in which the strong are just and the weak secure and the peace preserved.

Stand up to your obstacles and do something about them. You will find that they haven't half the strength you think they have.

What though strength fails? Boldness is certain to win praise. In mighty enterprises, it is enough to have had the determination.

Our lives are like islands in the sea, or like trees in the forest. The maple and the pine may whisper to each other with their leaves . . . But the trees also commingle their roots in the darkness underground, and the islands also hang together through the ocean's bottom.

Out of your vulnerabilities will come your strength.

Who works with all the strength he can Shall never die in debt to man.