‚Some Kind Of Monster‘ is such a nightmare for any musician to watch because you’re watching a band be honest to each other. Not a good idea, man!

I always wanted a great love affair: something that feels big and full, really honest, and enough. No moment should feel slight, false, or a little off. For me, it had to be everything.

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.

I do not believe there is a problem in this country or the world today which could not be settled if approached through the teaching of the Sermon on the Mount.

Anyone who doesn’t take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.

There’s just some magic in truth and honesty and openness.

Law is always better than war.

I abhor war and view it as the greatest scourge of mankind.

Most poets are young simply because they have not been caught up. Show me an old poet, and I’ll show you, more often than not, either a madman or a master… it’s when you begin to lie to yourself in a poem in order simply to make a poem that you fail. That is why I do not rework poems.

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.

Seek first to understand, then to be understood.

Diplomacy is the art of saying ‚Nice doggie‘ until you can find a rock.

I’m not always going to say things the perfect way, the right way. But I’m going to say how I feel.

We make war that we may live in peace.

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 surest way to remain poor is to be an honest man.

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

Don’t believe your friends when they ask you to be honest with them. All they really want is to be maintained in the good opinion they have of themselves.

I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man.

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

The man of life upright has a guiltless heart, free from all dishonest deeds or thought of vanity.

We should meet abuse by forbearance. Human nature is so constituted that if we take absolutely no notice of anger or abuse, the person indulging in it will soon weary of it and stop.

If you ever injected truth into politics you have no politics.

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.

I hate talking about music, to tell you the truth.

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

If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.

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.

Diplomats are just as essential to starting a war as soldiers are for finishing it… You take diplomacy out of war, and the thing would fall flat in a week.

Unless both sides win, no agreement can be permanent.

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

You know, my family and friends have never been yes-men: ‚Yes, you’re doing the right thing, you’re always right.‘ No, they tell me when I’m wrong, and that’s why I’ve been able to stay who I am and stay humble.

I do not pilfer victory.

I was gratified to be able to answer promptly, and I did. I said I didn’t know.

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

Speak the truth, and all things alive or brute are vouchers, and the very roots of the grass underground there, do seem to stir and move to bear you witness.

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

Integrity has no need of rules.

I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours.

Seek not the favor of the multitude; it is seldom got by honest and lawful means. But seek the testimony of few; and number not voices, but weigh them.

No face which we can give to a matter will stead us so well at last as the truth. This alone wears well.

The truth doesn’t hurt unless it ought to.

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

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.

The people who truly know me know what I’m like. There have been people who try to say things that aren’t fair, and I check them. And then they don’t like me because I checked them.

When I was married, I definitely went through a lying period.

A ‚No‘ uttered from the deepest conviction is better than a ‚Yes‘ merely uttered to please, or worse, to avoid trouble.

Falsehood is easy, truth so difficult.

I can’t pretend that I’m brave and that I can beat the whole world.

My thing is this; if I’m sick enough to think it, then I’m sick enough to say it.

Let’s be honest – tracking down, rounding up, and deporting millions of people isn’t realistic. Anyone who suggests otherwise isn’t being straight with you. It’s also not who we are as Americans.

No war is over until the enemy says it’s over.

Time was when they that feared the Lord spake often to one another; I am afraid that now they more often speak one against another.

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

Intervention only works when the people concerned seem to be keen for peace.

If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.

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

I never did give anybody hell. I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.

It is hardly an exaggeration to say that oral teachers and sign teachers found it difficult to sit down in the same room without quarreling, and there was intolerance upon both sides. To say ‚oral method‘ to a sign teacher was like waving a red flag in the face of a bull, and to say ‚sign language‘ to an oralist aroused the deepest resentment.

Notifying the enemy in advance of our withdrawal dates or reassuring the enemy that we will not use certain capabilities like our ground forces should be avoided.

Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world.