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

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.

Misfortune, and recited misfortune especially, may be prolonged to that point where it ceases to excite pity and arouses only irritation.

Noise proves nothing. Often a hen who has merely laid an egg crackles as if she had laid an asteroid.

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

Words are more treacherous and powerful than we think.

If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace, and this single reflection, well applied, is sufficient to awaken every man to duty.

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 argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience.

Extremists on all sides thrive, fed by the blood lust of centuries gone by.

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.

The progression of emancipation of any class usually, if not always, takes place through the efforts of individuals of that class.

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.

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.

No house should ever be on any hill or on anything. It should be of the hill, belonging to it, so hill and house could live together each the happier for the other.

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.

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.

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

A man has to learn that he cannot command things, but that he can command himself; that he cannot coerce the wills of others, but that he can mold and master his own will: and things serve him who serves Truth; people seek guidance of him who is master of himself.