It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.

The thing I hate about an argument is that it always interrupts a discussion.

The best revenge is not to be like your enemy.

Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience.

Beware of allowing a tactless word, a rebuttal, a rejection to obliterate the whole sky.

There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americanism… The one absolutely certain way of brining this nation to ruin, of preventing all possibility of its continuing to be a nation at all, would be to permit it to become a tangle of squabbling nationalities.

Whenever you're in conflict with someone, there is one factor that can make the difference between damaging your relationship and deepening it. That factor is attitude.

We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we were sure, stifling it would be an evil still.

Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression, and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.

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

We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break, our bonds of affection.

If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace, and this single reflection, well applied, is sufficient to awaken every man to duty.

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

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

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

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

Let us, then, be up and doing, With a heart for any fate; Still achieving, still pursuing, Learn to labor and to wait.

Don't waste life in doubts and fears; spend yourself on the work before you, well assured that the right performance of this hour's duties will be the best preparation for the hours and ages that will follow it.

It’s not when you realize that nothing can help you—religion, pride, anything—it’s when you realize that you don’t need any aid.

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