He who argues builds no roads.

Aloha is free.

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.

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

Silence is one of the great arts of conversation.

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.

To every action there is always opposed an equal reaction: or, the mutual actions of two bodies upon each other are always equal, and directed to contrary parts.

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

When elephants fight, ants get killed.

Beware of allowing a tactless word, a rebuttal, a rejection to obliterate the whole sky.

You may shoot me with your words, you may cut me with your eyes, you may kill me with your hatefulness, but still, like air, I'll rise.

It never ceases to amaze me: we all love ourselves more than others their opinions more than other people, but care more about their opinion than our own.

If you have overcome your inclination and not been overcome by it, you have reason to rejoice.

The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep’s throat, for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as his liberator, while the wolf denounces him for the same act. . . . Plainly the sheep and the wolf are not agreed upon the definition of liberty.

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

I am not only a pacifist but a militant pacifist. I am willing to fight for peace. Nothing will end war unless the people themselves refuse to go to war.

Fortunately psychoanalysis is not the only way to resolve inner conflicts. Life itself still remains a very effective therapist.

We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we were sure, stifling it would be an evil still.

Teach your child to hold his tongue; he'll learn fast enough to speak.

An inability to stay quiet . . . is one of the most conspicuous failings of mankind.

The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.

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

The No. 1 reason people fail in life is because they listen to their friends, family, and neighbors.

Born, n. a person who talks when you wish him to listen.

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

Listening, not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery.

If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been.

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

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

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.

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.

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

Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another.

Without properly kept accounts it is impossible to maintain truth in its pristine purity.