If you would persuade, you must appeal to interest rather than intellect.

Misfortune, and recited misfortune especially, may be prolonged to that point where it ceases to excite pity and arouses only irritation.

The greatest gift I can give is to see, hear, understand and touch another person. When this is done, I feel contact has been made.

All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.

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

Everything you say should be true but not everything true should be said.

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

Intelligent people tend to have less friends than the average person. The smarter you are, the more selective you become.

What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult.

It doesn't matter how smart you are unless you stop and think.

I've always felt that a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting points of view he can entertain simultaneously on the same topic.

I have always regarded that Constitution as the most remarkable work known to me in modern times to have been produced by the human intellect, at a single stroke (so to speak), in its application to political affairs.

Appearances to the mind are of four kinds. Things either are what they appear to be; or they neither are, nor appear to be; or they are, and do not appear to be; or they are not, and yet appear to be. Rightly to aim in all these cases is the wise man’s task.

In walking, the will and the muscles are so accustomed to working together and performing their task with so little expenditure of force that the intellect is left comparatively free.

To criticize is to appreciate, to appropriate, to take intellectual possession, to establish in fine a relation with the criticized thing and to make it one's own.

But all my life through, the very insistence on truth has taught me to appreciate the beauty of compromise.

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.

My experience has shown me that we win justice quickest by rendering justice to the other party.