It is a bad game where nobody wins.

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

I rebel; therefore I exist.

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

Peace is not the absence of war, but a virtue based on strength of character.

Extremists on all sides thrive, fed by the blood lust of centuries gone by.

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.

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.

Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

A wise man proportions his belief to the evidence.

Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance. Where there is patience and humility, there is neither anger nor vexation. Where there is poverty and joy, there is neither greed nor avarice. Where there is peace and meditation, there is neither anxiety nor doubt.

We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it—and stop there; lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove lid. She will never sit down on a hot stove lid again—and that is well; but also she will never sit down on a cold one any more.

Great wisdom is generous, petty wisdom is contentious. Great speech is impassioned, small speech in cantankerous.

The wise man accepts his pain, endures it, but does not add to it.