Do good to your friends to keep them, to your enemies to win them.

A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.

I lay it down as a fact that if all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world.

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

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

Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn’t have the power to say yes.

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.

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

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.

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

No amount of evidence will ever persuade an idiot.

Religion is a great force—the only real motive force in the world; but what you fellows don't understand is that you must get a man through his own religion and not through yours.

In all negotiations of difficulty, a man may not look to sow and reap at once; but must prepare business, and so ripen it by degrees.

The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.