Never[enter] into dispute or argument with another. I never yet saw an instance ofone of two disputants convincing the other by argument. I have seen many ontheir getting warm, becoming rude and shooting one another.

Ability is poor men's wealth

Compromise.Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary thesatisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and isdeprived of nothing except what was justly his due.

A man's ruin lies in his tongue.

A half-truth won for ourselves is worth more than a whole truth learned from others.

Use softwords and hard arguments.

A matter that becomes clear ceases to concern us.

The measure of a man is what he does with power.

Thedirect use of force is such a poor solution to any problem,it is generally employed only by small children and large nations.

The difficulty of speeches is what you are perpetually poised between the ciche and the indiscretion

I said to the almond tree, ‘'Friend, speak to me of God,’' and the almond treeblossomed.

... That may appear as the truth to one personwill often appear as untruth to another person. But that need not worry theseeker. Where there is honest effort, it will be realized that what appearedto be different truths are like the countless and apparen