The best way to resolve any problem in the human world is for all sides to sit down and talk.

I am a good listener. I think that came from my schooling.

If you want to know your true opinion of someone, watch the effect produced in you by the first sight of a letter from him.

I have to be in tune. All the time. I have to be in tune with my husband, where he is, how he’s feeling. I have to be in tune with where my family is.

When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but creatures of emotion.

No problem can withstand the assault of sustained thinking.

Words mean more than what is set down on paper. It takes the human voice to infuse them with deeper meaning.

You carry Mother Earth within you. She is not outside of you. Mother Earth is not just your environment. In that insight of inter-being, it is possible to have real communication with the Earth, which is the highest form of prayer.

Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice.

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

People make suggestions on what to say all the time. I’ll give you an example; I don’t read what’s handed to me. People say, ‚Here, here’s your speech, or here’s an idea for a speech.‘ They’re changed. Trust me.

I feel like I was writing as I was learning to talk. Writing was always a go-to form of communication. And I knew I could sing from being in tune with the radio.

When your mother asks, ‚Do you want a piece of advice?‘ it is a mere formality. It doesn’t matter if you answer yes or no. You’re going to get it anyway.

As you deal with more and more complex systems, it becomes harder and harder to find deep and interesting properties.

I used to stutter really badly. Everybody thinks it’s funny. And it’s not funny. It’s not.

People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.

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.

Who you are speaks so loudly I can’t hear what you’re saying.

I don’t write letters anymore.

There is no waste of time in life like that of making explanations.

If you can’t convince them, confuse them.

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

I think a lot of people, including me, clammed up when a civilian asked about battle, about war. It was fashionable. One of the most impressive ways to tell your war story is to refuse to tell it, you know. Civilians would then have to imagine all kinds of deeds of derring-do.

The mouth obeys poorly when the heart murmurs.

Sometimes cameras and television are good to people and sometimes they aren’t. I don’t know if its the way you say it, or how you look.

We often refuse to accept an idea merely because the tone of voice in which it has been expressed is unsympathetic to us.

You don’t lead by hitting people over the head – that’s assault, not leadership.

A yawn is a silent shout.

Keep silence for the most part, and speak only when you must, and then briefly.

Our schools and colleges are turning out people who cannot feel fulfilled unless they are telling other people what to do.

Example is leadership.

I’m a great believer that any tool that enhances communication has profound effects in terms of how people can learn from each other, and how they can achieve the kind of freedoms that they’re interested in.

I’ll be glad to reply to or dodge your questions, depending on what I think will help our election most.

But let there be spaces in your togetherness and let the winds of the heavens dance between you. Love one another but make not a bond of love: let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.

I think one of the basic reasons men make good friends is that they can make up their minds quickly.

I used to worry about every little thing, trying to figure out every problem. Well, I realize now how foolish that was. I was no more in control of my life than the man on the moon.

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

Sometimes I’ve been to a party where no one spoke to me for a whole evening. The men, frightened by their wives or sweeties, would give me a wide berth. And the ladies would gang up in a corner to discuss my dangerous character.

Necessity… the mother of invention.

For just when ideas fail, a word comes in to save the situation.

It’s not a slam at you when people are rude, it’s a slam at the people they’ve met before.

It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.

Tell them to send everything that can fly.

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.

Happy is the hearing man; unhappy the speaking man.

When he to whom one speaks does not understand, and he who speaks himself does not understand, that is metaphysics.

If you have an enemy, then learn and know your enemy, don’t just be mad at him or her.

I just want you to know that, when we talk about war, we’re really talking about peace.

The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.

There are some people, you know, they think the way to be a big man is to shout and stomp and raise hell-and then nothing ever really happens. I’m not like that I never shoot blanks.

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

I learned from my dog long before I went to Gombe that we weren’t the only beings with personalities. What the chimps did was help me to persuade others.

In a false quarrel there is no true valor.

Sports are such a great teacher. I think of everything they’ve taught me: camaraderie, humility, how to resolve differences.

I had noticed that many of these successful people, historical and contemporary, shared certain common traits. They had a way of thinking that was exceptionally fluid; they could adapt to almost any circumstance; when confronted with problems, they could look at them from novel perspectives and solve them.

It is not, of course, complete yet – but some sentences were understood this afternoon… I feel that I have at last struck the solution of a great problem – and the day is coming when telegraph wires will be laid onto houses just like water or gas – and friends converse with each other without leaving home.

What is uttered from the heart alone, Will win the hearts of others to your own.

I think frugality drives innovation, just like other constraints do. One of the only ways to get out of a tight box is to invent your way out.

Foreign policy is like human relations, only people know less about each other.

We have practiced diplomacy since the very beginning of the nation. Sometimes it has not worked, and we’ve had to go to war. I always believe you should try to find peace and reconciliation before conflict. That has been the approach I’ve taken.

A letter does not blush.