A companion’s words of persuasion are effective.

I hate who steals my solitude without, in exchange, offering me true company.

Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind, spare to us our friends, soften to us our enemies.

We are all full of weakness and errors; let us mutually pardon each other our follies—it is the first law of nature.

Plato is my friend; Aristotle is my friend, but my greatest friend is truth.

It is clear that the individual who persecutes a man, his brother, because he is not of the same opinion, is a monster.

Life in common among people who love each other is the ideal of happiness.

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

Wherever there is injustice, war, discrimination against women, gays and the disadvantaged, I did my best to show up and exert moral persuasion.

Tact is the knack of making a point without making an enemy.

No amount of evidence will ever persuade an idiot.

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

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.

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