People respond in accordance to how you relate to them. If you approach them on the basis of violence, that’s how they’ll react. But if you say, ‚We want peace, we want stability,‘ we can then do a lot of things that will contribute towards the progress of our society.

The strong man is the one who is able to intercept at will the communication between the senses and the mind.

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

The Iranian regime, in my mind, is the single most enduring threat to stability and peace in the Middle East.

Those who cannot understand how to put their thoughts on ice should not enter into the heat of debate.

We have language and they do not. Chimps communicate by embracing, patting, looking – all these things. And they have lots of sounds. But they cannot sit and discuss. They cannot teach about things that are not present, as far as we know.

He who exercises government by means of his virtue may be compared to the north polar star, which keeps its place and all the stars turn towards it.

I don’t think I’ve ever felt that same kind of peace, the kind of serenity that I felt after acknowledging that maybe I was going to die of this TB.

I can unload my opinion on anybody at anytime.

One has to secrete a jelly in which to slip quotations down people’s throats – and one always secretes too much jelly.

I hope my own children never have to fight a war.

Always be sincere, even if you don’t mean it.

When the people we love stop paying attention, trust begins to slip away and hurt starts seeping in.

I don’t do Shakespeare. I don’t talk in that kind of broken English.

I very much believe the Internet is indeed all it is cracked up to be.

I haven’t gone out of my way to seek advice from people I don’t know.

Peace is not made at the council table or by treaties, but in the hearts of men.

If you want a love message to be heard, it has got to be sent out. To keep a lamp burning, we have to keep putting oil in it.

The true triumph of reason is that it enables us to get along with those who do not possess it.

When you have peace in yourself and accept, then you are calm enough to do something, but if you are carried by despair, there is no hope.

What I have never been afraid of is to be a little silly, and you can engage people that way. My view is, first you get them to laugh, then you get them to listen.

We write for the same reason that we walk, talk, climb mountains or swim the oceans – because we can. We have some impulse within us that makes us want to explain ourselves to other human beings. That’s why we paint, that’s why we dare to love someone – because we have the impulse to explain who we are.

There is a huge need and a huge opportunity to get everyone in the world connected, to give everyone a voice and to help transform society for the future. The scale of the technology and infrastructure that must be built is unprecedented, and we believe this is the most important problem we can focus on.

My readers – and I get 400 emails for a day, my readers normally they say, well, you understand me, and I answer, you do understand me also. We are in the same level.

It may be the part of a friend to rebuke a friend’s folly.

Money has a language of its own.

Communications technology changes possibilities for communication, but that doesn’t mean it changes the inherited structure of the brain. So you may think that you’re addicted to online reading, but as soon as it isn’t available anymore, your brain will pretty immediately adjust to other forms of reading. It’s a habit like all habits.

Some animals utter a loud cry. Some are silent, and others have a voice, which in some cases may be expressed by a word; in others, it cannot. There are also noisy animals and silent animals, musical and unmusical kinds, but they are mostly noisy about the breeding season.

Being a good listener is absolutely critical to being a good leader; you have to listen to the people who are on the front line.

I try to speak in a way that people can understand.

I’ve used the prestige and influence of having been a president of the United States as effectively as possible. And secondly, I’ve still been able to carry out my commitments to peace and human rights and environmental quality and freedom and democracy and so forth.

Coffee is a language in itself.

I did my utmost to ensure that everyone below me in the chain of command felt comfortable approaching me with concerns, ideas, thoughts, and even disagreements.

I never went to school more than six months in my life, but I can say this: that among my earliest recollections, I remember how, when a mere child, I used to get irritated when anybody talked to me in a way I could not understand.

Language is a weapon of politicians, but language is a weapon in much of human affairs.

You accept that this civilisation could be abolished and life will begin later on after a few thousand years because that is something that has happened in the history of this planet. When you have peace in yourself and accept, then you are calm enough to do something, but if you are carried by despair there is no hope.

Journalism makes you think fast. You have to speak to people in all walks of life. Especially local journalism.

In an interconnected age when opportunistic adversaries can work in tandem to destroy stability and prosperity, our country needs to regain its strategic footing. We need to bring the clarity to our efforts before we lose the confidence of the American people and the support of potential allies.

You either get tired fighting for peace, or you die.

Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether.

To be clear: we have fights and problems like any other couple.

We must restore hope to young people, help the old, be open to the future, spread love. Be poor among the poor. We need to include the excluded and preach peace.

Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.

It’s a very good question, very direct, and I’m not going to answer it.

I used to tell my husband that, if he could make me ‚understand‘ something, it would be clear to all the other people in the country.

Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man.

People are looking for something a little more stable; people are feeling like they need to get closer to God.

When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one.

Life could be wonderful if people would leave you alone.

Throughout my career, I learned plenty about war on the battlefield, but I learned even more about the importance of finding peace. And that is what the State Department and U.S.A.I.D. do: prevent the wars that we can avoid so that we fight only the ones we must.

Never explain – your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.

I’m really bad with answering questions. Usually, I don’t even answer them. I try to find inspiration inside of the question. I think, and I jump from one beam of inspiration or energy to the next, as opposed to explaining the energy.

The difficulty with this conversation is that it’s very different from most of the ones I’ve had of late. Which, as I explained, have mostly been with trees.

Often, little situations trigger enormous reactions. Be there, present for it. Your partner will find it easier to see it in you, and you will find it easier to see it in them.

Quite frankly, Russian aggression in Ukraine and its illegal occupation of Crimea remind us that we still have a good deal more work to do to guarantee the strategic vision of a Europe whole, free and at peace.

A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and done his best; but what he has said or done otherwise shall give him no peace.

We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other’s children.

Stability is when the U.K. and U.S. invade a country and impose the regime of their choice.

It should be possible to explain the laws of physics to a barmaid.

India can live without nuclear weapons. That’s our dream, and it should be the dream of the U.S. also.

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.