Peace can be promoted by the limitation of arms and by the creation of the instrumentality for peaceful settlement of controversies. But it will become a reality only through self-restraint and active effort in friendliness and helpfulness.

If I have done the public any service, it is due to my patient thought.

I’m not the kind of cat that’s going to cut off an ear if I can’t do something.

Peace is not only better than war, but infinitely more arduous.

The wise man should restrain his senses like the crane and accomplish his purpose with due knowledge of his place, time and ability.

I never give advice unless someone asks me for it. One thing I’ve learned, and possibly the only advice I have to give, is to not be that person giving out unsolicited advice based on your own personal experience.

The idea is to try to give all the information to help others to judge the value of your contribution; not just the information that leads to judgment in one particular direction or another.

Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself.

All we are saying is give peace a chance.

It is the failing of youth not to be able to restrain its own violence.

The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons.

The best executive is one who has sense enough to pick good people to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it.