Conceit spoils the finest genius… and the great charm of all power is modesty.

Many argue. Not many converse.
- Topic: Communication, Conflict
- Location: Haleakala National Park, Hawaii, Maui
- Photo: Jeffrey Benjamin
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The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.
After all, the only proper intoxication is conversation.
Man is a social animal.
On his tongue they pour sweet dew, and from his mouth flow gentle words.
Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.
True success, true wealth, does not come out of the barrel of a gun.
The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep’s throat, for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as his liberator, while the wolf denounces him for the same act. . . . Plainly the sheep and the wolf are not agreed upon the definition of liberty.
Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression, and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.
Peace is not the absence of war, but a virtue based on strength of character.
Never cross a man, not afraid to die.
Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
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.
