An argument needs no reason, nor a friendship.

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

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.

If you spend your time hoping someone will suffer the consequences for what they did to your heart, then you’re allowing them to hurt you a second time in your mind.

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

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.

Whenever you're in conflict with someone, there is one factor that can make the difference between damaging your relationship and deepening it. That factor is attitude.

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.

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

Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression, and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.

A friend may be waiting behind a stranger's face.

It is clear that the individual who persecutes a man, his brother, because he is not of the same opinion, is a monster.

Life in common among people who love each other is the ideal of happiness.

Every heart sings a song incomplete, until another heart whispers back.

I hate who steals my solitude without, in exchange, offering me true company.

There are three great friends: an old wife, and old dog, and ready money.

No amount of evidence will ever persuade an idiot.

It's frightful that people who are so ignorant should have so much influence.

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

Wherever there is injustice, war, discrimination against women, gays and the disadvantaged, I did my best to show up and exert moral persuasion.

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