Reacting in anger or annoyance will not advance one’s ability to persuade.

You don’t have to give way to careless speech or complaining. You don’t have to let your feelings get in the way of what God wants to do in your life.

I carry a small sheet of paper in my wallet that has written on it the names of people whose opinions of me matter. To be on that list, you have to love me for my strengths and struggles.

I don’t ever make moves under pressure.

I just get annoyed at myself. A lot of swearing goes on generally when I am driving.

Consider, when you are enraged at any one, what you would probably think if he should die during the dispute.

Nothing is so unbelievable that oratory cannot make it acceptable.

I’m not a person that socializes very well.

You can only have one aim per debate.

Rhetoric may be defined as the faculty of observing in any given case the available means of persuasion. This is not a function of any other art.

You must never be satisfied with losing. You must get angry, terribly angry, about losing. But the mark of the good loser is that he takes his anger out on himself and not his victorious opponents or on his teammates.

I’ve had no problem harnessing anger.

Before I refuse to take your questions, I have an opening statement.

Appearance is something absolute, but reality is not that way – everything is interdependent, not absolute. So that view is very helpful to maintain a peace of mind because the main destroyer of a peaceful mind is anger.

Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you’ve conquered human nature.

Those convinced against their will are of the same opinion still.

We never repent of having eaten too little.

Propaganda is amazing. People can be led to believe anything.

You will not be punished for your anger, you will be punished by your anger.

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

The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it… I can resist everything but temptation.

In making a speech one must study three points: first, the means of producing persuasion; second, the language; third the proper arrangement of the various parts of the speech.

Persuasion is clearly a sort of demonstration, since we are most fully persuaded when we consider a thing to have been demonstrated.

So when I speak in front of thousands, tens of thousands of people, I don’t really get nervous because I know what I want to say and I know what message I want to give.

If you do not conquer self, you will be conquered by self.

Anyone who seeks to destroy the passions instead of controlling them is trying to play the angel.

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

When Caroline Kennedy managed to say ‚you know‘ more than 200 times in an interview with the New York ‚Daily News,‘ and on 130 occasions while talking to ‚The New York Times‘ during her uninspired attempt to become a hereditary senator, she proved, among other things, that she was (a) middle-aged and (b) middle class.

I could never give relationship advice to anybody!

Do not bite at the bait of pleasure, till you know there is no hook beneath it.

Talkers are usually more articulate than doers, since talk is their specialty.

The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie, deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.

How can a president not be an actor?

People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.

The ability to deal with people is as purchasable a commodity as sugar or coffee and I will pay more for that ability than for any other under the sun.

I have been – I have spoken in Bir Zeit a number of times.

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

Mindfulness practices enhance the connection between our body, our mind and everything else that is around us. Mindful living is the key to understanding our struggles with weight and to empowering us to control our weight.

My experience with power, you can maintain it, or you get it taken from you. You get you some newfound power and go crazy, and it get taken from you quick.

If you think you can slander a woman into loving you, or a man into voting for you, try it till you are satisfied.

In the television age, the key distinction is between the candidate who can speak poetry and the one who can only speak prose.

I’m just preparing my impromptu remarks.

I’ve been known to preach.

It takes tremendous discipline to control the influence, the power you have over other people’s lives.

The purest and most thoughtful minds are those which love colour the most.

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.

I don’t even know how to speak up for myself, because I don’t really have a father who would give me the confidence or advice.

There’s nothing wrong with anger provided you use it constructively.

Mandela’s heroism is the heroism of a man who suffered so badly for what he thought of as freedom. And yet when he had the upper hand he has this incredible self-control and these incredible leadership qualities.

In the end, people are persuaded not by what we say, but by what they understand.

Men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more than their words.

We think too much and feel too little.

If you’re put on a pedestal, you’re supposed to behave yourself like a pedestal type of person. Pedestals actually have a limited circumference. Not much room to move around.

The power of man has grown in every sphere, except over himself.

Speak the truth, do not yield to anger; give, if thou art asked for little; by these three steps thou wilt go near the gods.

It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what others say in a whole book.

We gain the strength of the temptation we resist.

It’s no accident many accuse me of conducting public affairs with my heart instead of my head. Well, what if I do? Those who don’t know how to weep with their whole heart don’t know how to laugh either.

For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind.

Listening to and understanding our inner sufferings will resolve most of the problems we encounter.

When you really listen to another person from their point of view, and reflect back to them that understanding, it’s like giving them emotional oxygen.