The only way to get the best of an argument is to avoid it.

Nowhere is it written that there must be conflict between the United States and China.

I don’t feel bitterness, I don’t feel anger towards anybody. Fighting is never emotional to me.

Both times I was in India, I could not get people to listen to each other. I had to literally tell people to listen to each other and tell them that they can’t get creative and find alternate solutions if they don’t listen to each other. There’s a lot of arguing and justifying.

All men hate the nagging.

You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.

We know that dictators are quick to choose aggression, while free nations strive to resolve differences in peace.

As we dread any disease that undermines the health of the body, so should we deplore contention, which is a corroding canker of the spirit.

Never hold discussions with the monkey when the organ grinder is in the room.

The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.

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

If the other person injures you, you may forget the injury; but if you injure him you will always remember.

You may either win your peace or buy it: win it, by resistance to evil; buy it, by compromise with evil.

Pre-emptive war might fall within the framework of international law.

I really think that there was a great advantage in many ways to being a woman. I think we are a lot better at personal relationships, and then have the capability obviously of telling it like it is when it’s necessary.

The capability of negotiating… is something that means you not only have to understand fully what you believe and what your national interests are but in order to be a really good negotiator, you have to try to figure out what the other person on the other side of the table has in mind.

Unconditional war can no longer lead to unconditional victory. It can no longer serve to settle disputes… can no longer be of concern to great powers alone.

People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.

Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.

War is just when it is necessary; arms are permissible when there is no hope except in arms.

We should not fight wars without a clearly defined end state… when you go to war, it can’t be a half-step.

If you do not understand a man you cannot crush him. And if you do understand him, very probably you will not.

Conflict cannot survive without your participation.

Unless both sides win, no agreement can be permanent.

Nothing is ever done in this world until men are prepared to kill one another if it is not done.

When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.

Mankind must put an end to war before war puts an end to mankind.

If you’re talking to a man who wouldn’t fight with you under any circumstances whatsoever, then you’re talking to someone for whom you have absolutely no respect.

I have lived in countries that were coming out of conflict: Ireland, South Africa, the Czech republic. People there are overflowing with energy.

I’m not somebody that just wants to hold up a white flag and say, ‚Let’s all just get along.‘ I think people that do horrible things should be held accountable.

I want the Israeli government to be made accountable for its behaviour to the Palestinians, and I want the people of the U.S. to cease acting as if they don’t understand what is going on.

The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.

Only the guy who isn’t rowing has time to rock the boat.

I have learned to interface – what I think would be the contemporary term – with various different lexicons, and people speak very different languages. I’ve learned to speak in a lot of tongues, and I can live with the bellicose language of some fervent, fire-breathing Christians, sure.

An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind.

Be as polite to the custodian as you are to the chairman of the board.

Because I know about the Holy Land, I’ve taught lessons about the Holy Land all my life, and – but you can’t bring peace to Israel without giving the Palestinian also peace. And Lebanon and Jordan and Syria as well.

We can’t afford to be killing one another.

Extemporaneous speaking should be practiced and cultivated. It is the lawyer’s avenue to the public. However able and faithful he may be in other respects, people are slow to bring him business if he cannot make a speech.

I have known war as few men now living know it. It’s very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a means of settling international disputes.

An association of men who will not quarrel with one another is a thing which has never yet existed, from the greatest confederacy of nations down to a town meeting or a vestry.

My position has always been, along with many other people, that any differences be resolved in a nonviolent way.

If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner.

If you’re not very clever you should be conciliatory.

I go onstage and I talk, and I remember what I’m saying, and I track it.

In all private quarrels the duller nature is triumphant by reason of dullness.

Don’t hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft.

It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.

Occasionally the conflict between ‚what we stand for‘ and ‚what we do‘ has been forthrightly addressed.

Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.

Let us move from the era of confrontation to the era of negotiation.

Poverty breeds despair. We know this. Despair breeds violence. We know this. In turbulent times, isn’t it cheaper, and smarter, to make friends out of potential enemies than to defend yourself against them later?

If you get down and quarell everyday, you’re saying prayers to the devil, I say.

Talk low, talk slow and don’t say too much.

If one could only teach the English how to talk, and the Irish how to listen, society here would be quite civilized.

Sports are such a great teacher. I think of everything they’ve taught me: camaraderie, humility, how to resolve differences.

You must show the world that you abhor fighting.

You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.

A person standing in front of an audience without enthusiasm for his subject and his actions is disconnected from his spirit.

You will kill 10 of our men, and we will kill 1 of yours, and in the end it will be you who tire of it.

A master performer like Bill Clinton never lost sight of the fact that as president he had to project confidence and power, but if he was speaking to a group of autoworkers he would adjust his accent and his words to fit the audience, and do the same for a group of executives.