Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience.

It takes two years to learn to speak and sixty to learn to keep quiet.

To effectively communicate, we must realize that we are all different in the way we perceive the world and use this understanding as a guide to our communication with others.

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.

Rest satisfied with doing well, and leave others to talk of you as they will.

Man's tongue is soft, and bone doth lack; yet a stroke therewith may break a man's back.

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

Meaningful silence is better than meaningless words.

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

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

I have seen enough of one war never to wish to see another.

Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what they are going to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote.

If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we should find in each man’s life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.

Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties.

We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break, our bonds of affection.

Let no man pull you so low as to hate him.

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