Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. As a peacemaker the lawyer has superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough.

If there was less sympathy in the world, there would be less trouble in the world.

The minute you start compromising for the sake of massaging somebody’s ego, that’s it, game over.

Clean fighting solves everything. It ends all bad blood and any ill feelings people have. That’s my thoughts.

Wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.

When things haven’t gone well for you, call in a secretary or a staff man and chew him out. You will sleep better and they will appreciate the attention.

There are horrible people who, instead of solving a problem, tangle it up and make it harder to solve for anyone who wants to deal with it. Whoever does not know how to hit the nail on the head should be asked not to hit it at all.

The real and lasting victories are those of peace, and not of war.

In defense of our persons and properties under actual violation, we took up arms. When that violence shall be removed, when hostilities shall cease on the part of the aggressors, hostilities shall cease on our part also.

Make crime pay. Become a lawyer.

As a tactic, violence is absurd. No one can compete with the Government in violence, and the resort to violence, which will surely fail, will simply frighten and alienate some who can be reached, and will further encourage the ideologists and administrators of forceful repression.

Until you have learned to be tolerant with those who do not always agree with you, you will be neither successful nor happy.

War should be the politics of last resort. And when we go to war, we should have a purpose that our people understand and support.

Whoever has provoked men to rage against him has always gained a party in his favor, too.

Diplomacy: the art of restraining power.

We win justice quickest by rendering justice to the other party.

Seek first to understand, then to be understood.

It’s tough to negotiate from a position of weakness.

To jaw-jaw is always better than to war-war.

No book includes the entire world. It’s limited. And so it doesn’t seem like an aesthetic compromise to have to do that. There’s so much other material to write about.

But I do not believe that the world would be entirely different if there were more women leaders. Maybe if everybody in leadership was a woman, you might not get into the conflicts in the first place. But if you watch the women who have made it to the top, they haven’t exactly been non-aggressive – including me.

Politics are very much like war. We may even have to use poison gas at times.

Always remember that your calmness under fire is your best defense in any argument or discussion.

If you want peace, you don’t talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.

There was one incident at a movie theater where my girl got mad at these guys who were talking behind us. I never looked back there, but she was like, ‚Will you all just shut up!‘ And I just got up and moved three rows in front. She was like, ‚What are you doing?!‘ I was like, ‚You better get up here! I don’t play the fighting games.‘

When we quarrel, how we wish we had been blameless.

It is our duty still to endeavor to avoid war; but if it shall actually take place, no matter by whom brought on, we must defend ourselves. If our house be on fire, without inquiring whether it was fired from within or without, we must try to extinguish it.

Peace is not absence of conflict, it is the ability to handle conflict by peaceful means.

If you can’t answer a man’s arguments, all is not lost; you can still call him vile names.

There should be an honest attempt at the reconciliation of differences before resorting to combat.

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

We make war that we may live in peace.

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.

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

We are going to have peace even if we have to fight for it.

It is an unfortunate fact that we can secure peace only by preparing for war.

The doctor sees all the weakness of mankind; the lawyer all the wickedness, the theologian all the stupidity.

I would hear stories about Steve Jobs and feel like he was at 100 percent exactly what he wanted to do, but I’m sure even a Steve Jobs has compromised. Even a Rick Owens has compromised. You know, even a Kanye West has compromised. Sometimes you don’t even know when you’re being compromised till after the fact, and that’s what you regret.

War is not an independent phenomenon, but the continuation of politics by different means.

It’s a lose-lose situation to get in a confrontation on the street. If you can break contact and get away, break contact and get away. That’s what you should learn self-defense for.

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?

The basic problems facing the world today are not susceptible to a military solution.

Arguments are to be avoided: they are always vulgar and often convincing.

To be or not to be is not a question of compromise. Either you be or you don’t be.

We want everybody to act like adults, quit playing games, realize that it’s not just my way or the highway.

Our numbers have increased in Vietnam because the aggression of others has increased in Vietnam. There is not, and there will not be, a mindless escalation.

There can be no doubt that the average man blames much more than he praises. His instinct is to blame. If he is satisfied he says nothing; if he is not, he most illogically kicks up a row.

I certainly would not like to end up in a tie-up with Ms. Rousey.

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

Remind yourself that winning an argument or proving your point really gets you nowhere in the long run. Win through your actions, not your words.

My own experience is use the tools that are out there. Use the digital world. But never lose sight of the need to reach out and talk to other people who don’t share your view. Listen to them and see if you can find a way to compromise.

All wars signify the failure of conflict resolution mechanisms, and they need post-war rebuilding of faith, trust and confidence.

I grew up in an environment where being polite was taken as a weakness. So I just fought everybody.

We can’t afford to be killing one another.

It seems like when I was growing up there was more compromise, wanting to work with each other, and I think all of them – all of the lawmakers – have hearts to do what’s right, and they all are passionate about it.

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 used to get into a lot of fights.

You must show the world that you abhor fighting.

The greatest honor history can bestow is that of peacemaker.

We cannot learn from one another until we stop shouting at one another – until we speak quietly enough so that our words can be heard as well as our voices.

My lawyer has been a good friend of mine for a long time. He and I continuously have conversations.