You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of a war.

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 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.

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

I have seen enough of one war never to wish to see another.

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.

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

Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.

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.

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.

Nonviolence is the answer to the crucial political and moral questions of our time; the need for man to overcome oppression and violence without resorting to oppression and violence.