A slip of the foot you may soon recover, but a slip of the tongue you may never get over.

Understanding a question is half an answer.

A fast way to demolish relationships, shatter credibility and disrespect yourself is by not following through when you say you are going to do something.

Every word has consequences. Every silence, too.

Speak not, but what may benefit others or yourself; avoid trifling conversation.

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.

Silence is one of the great arts of conversation.

Silence at the proper season is wisdom, and better than any speech.

Most conversations are just alternating monologues. The question is, is there any real listening going on.

When there is silence one finds the anchor of the universe within oneself.

The No. 1 reason people fail in life is because they listen to their friends, family, and neighbors.

I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.

Listening, not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery.

It takes two years to learn to speak and sixty to learn to keep quiet.

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

Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.

Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn’t have the power to say yes.

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

In all negotiations of difficulty, a man may not look to sow and reap at once; but must prepare business, and so ripen it by degrees.

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

The better you are at communicating negotiating, and handling your fear of rejection, the easier life is.

It's frightful that people who are so ignorant should have so much influence.

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

One who believes in himself has no need to convince others.

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.