Hear the other side, and believe little.

Once we believe in ourselves we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight or any experience that reveals the human spirit.

Do not hide your faith and your beliefs under a bushel basket, especially in this world that seems to have gone mad with political correctness.

No man can afford to express, through words and acts, that which is not in harmony with his own beliefs, and if he does so, he may pay by the loss of his ability to influence others.

It isn’t enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn’t enough to believe in it. One must work at it.

Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense.

Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside of them was superior to circumstance.

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

The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.

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

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

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.

If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.

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

How could man rejoice in victory and delight in the slaughter of men?

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.

Howsoever you may repair it, a rift is a rift.

If you spend your time hoping someone will suffer the consequences for what they did to your heart, then you’re allowing them to hurt you a second time in your mind.

The free flow of conflicting ideas and feelings is critical for creative thinking, for discovering new solutions no one individual would have come to on his own.

To every action there is always opposed an equal reaction: or, the mutual actions of two bodies upon each other are always equal, and directed to contrary parts.

Can anything be more ridiculous than that a man should have the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of the water, and because his ruler has a quarrel with mine, though I have none with him?

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

Never miss a good chance to shut up.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.