Lasting influence is achieved through persuasion, not coercion.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another.

People who know what they’re talking about don’t need PowerPoint.

We know how to speak many falsehoods which resemble real things, but we know, when we will, how to speak true things.

Understanding a question is half an answer.