The way to silence religious disputes is to take no notice of them.

Since the civil war in Laos was resumed in earnest in 1963, American participation has been veiled in secrecy.

If you can’t beat them, arrange to have them beaten.

The responsibility of tolerance lies with those who have the wider vision.

We know that dictators are quick to choose aggression, while free nations strive to resolve differences in peace.

Don’t say I hate institutionalised religion – rather than saying I hate those things, which I do not, what I’m saying is that perhaps there is a way of opening more doors, rather than closing so many.

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

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

We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature – trees, flowers, grass- grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence… We need silence to be able to touch souls.

Where the Mind is biggest, the Heart, the Senses, Magnanimity, Charity, Tolerance, Kindliness, and the rest of them scarcely have room to breathe.

Never hold discussions with the monkey when the organ grinder is in the room.

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

The capability of negotiating… is something that means you not only have to understand fully what you believe and what your national interests are but in order to be a really good negotiator, you have to try to figure out what the other person on the other side of the table has in mind.

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

He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words.

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

If you get down and quarell everyday, you’re saying prayers to the devil, I say.

I do not believe we will have a war with Iran.

You beat him verbally. You beat him mentally, and then finally, you beat him physically. That’s the three ways to beat a man.

Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together.

In a false quarrel there is no true valor.

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.

If you can’t tolerate critics, don’t do anything new or interesting.

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

You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war.

A quarrel is quickly settled when deserted by one party; there is no battle unless there be two.

Silence is golden when you can’t think of a good answer.

History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people.

In human intercourse the tragedy begins, not when there is misunderstanding about words, but when silence is not understood.

You hesitate to stab me with a word, and know not – silence is the sharper sword.

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

You will kill 10 of our men, and we will kill 1 of yours, and in the end it will be you who tire of it.

In all private quarrels the duller nature is triumphant by reason of dullness.

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

Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.

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.

The eternal silence of these infinite spaces frightens me.

Silence is one of the great arts of conversation.

Meditation is to be aware of every thought and of every feeling, never to say it is right or wrong, but just to watch it and move with it. In that watching, you begin to understand the whole movement of thought and feeling. And out of this awareness comes silence.

Those who can win a war well can rarely make a good peace and those who could make a good peace would never have won the war.

Never pick a fight with people who buy ink by the barrel.

Give thy thoughts no tongue.

In my view of the present aspect of affairs, there is no need of bloodshed and war. There is no necessity for it. I am not in favor of such a course, and I may say in advance, there will be no blood shed unless it be forced upon the government. The government will not use force unless force is used against it.

After one has been in prison, it is the small things that one appreciates: being able to take a walk whenever one wants, going into a shop and buying a newspaper, speaking or choosing to remain silent. The simple act of being able to control one’s person.

Wars are, of course, as a rule to be avoided; but they are far better than certain kinds of peace.

We should not fight wars without a clearly defined end state… when you go to war, it can’t be a half-step.

Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.

Errors of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it.

Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.

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.

You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.

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

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

Pre-emptive war might fall within the framework of international law.

It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no God.

Even peace may be purchased at too high a price.

An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.

I learned a great many years ago that in a fight between husband and wife, a third party should never get between the woman’s skillet and the man’s ax-helve.

Let my enemies devour each other.

We can’t afford to be killing one another.

America and Islam are not exclusive and need not be in competition. Instead, they overlap, and share common principles of justice and progress, tolerance and the dignity of all human beings.