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

Never cross a man, not afraid to die.

Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience.

We can disagree and still love each other unless your disagreement is rooted in my oppression and denial of my humanity and right to exist.

Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties.

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.

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

Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.

When elephants fight, ants get killed.

Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.

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

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

Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.

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.

You are the only person who thinks in your mind. You are the power and authority in your world.

Self-control is strength. Right thought is mastery. Calmness is power.

The primary imagination I hold to be the living power and prime agent of all human perception, and as a repetition in the finite mind of the eternal act of creation in the infinite I am.

I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater it will be.

It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.

Those who enjoy responsibility usually get it; those who merely enjoy exercising authority usually lose it.

There is nothing happens to any person but what was in his power to go through with.

I do nothing upon myself, and yet am mine own executioner.

There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that’s your own self.

All limitations are self-imposed.

A friend is as it were a second self.

We all walk in the dark and each of us must learn to turn on his or her own light.