He who cannot put his thoughts on ice should not enter into the heat of dispute.

The better you are at communicating negotiating, and handling your fear of rejection, the easier life is.

Listen with ears of tolerance, see through the eyes of compassion, speak with language of love.

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.

No problem is so deep that it cannot be overcome, given the will of all parties, through discussion and negotiation rather than force and violence.

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

With reasonable men, I will reason; with humane men I will plead; but to tyrants I will give no quarters, nor waste arguments where they will certainly be lost.

The period is now arrived, in which either they or we must change our sentiments, or one or both must fall.

The thing I hate about an argument is that it always interrupts a discussion.

He that blows the coals in quarrels that he has nothing to do with, has no right to complain if the sparks fly in his face.

I wish no explanation made to our enemies. What they want is a squabble and a fuss; and that they can have if we explain; and they cannot have if we don’t.

Madness does not govern a country; discussion does.

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

Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.

Never cross a man, not afraid to die.

Men who reject the responsibility of thought and reason can only exist as parasites on the thinking of others.

When we see men of worth, we should think of equaling them; when we see men of a contrary character, we should turn inwards and examine ourselves.

Some of the worst things in my life never happened.

Life does not consist of facts. It consists mainly of the storm of thoughts that is forever flowing through one's head.

Take time to deliberate; but when the time for action arrives, stop thinking and go in.

There is as much greatness of mind in acknowledging a good turn, as in doing it.

Two percent of the people think; three percent of the people think they think; and ninety-five percent of the people would rather die than think.

You must try to observe yourself more and more objectively, to look at everything in yourself as though another person.

To make a contented slave it is necessary to make a thoughtless one. It is necessary to darken the moral and mental vision and, as far as possible, to annihilate the power of reason.

It is not because men's desires are strong that they act ill; it is because their consciences are weak.

There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world; and that is an idea whose time has come.

Those who are free of resentful thoughts surely find peace.