You can disagree without being disagreeable.

Wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.

A cardinal principle of Total Quality escapes too many managers: you cannot continuously improve interdependent systems and processes until you progressively perfect interdependent, interpersonal relationships.

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

You know, you can make a small mistake in language or etiquette in Britain, or you could when I was younger, and really be made to feel it, and it’s the flick of a lash, but it would sting, and especially at school where there’s not much privacy, and so on. You could, yes, undoubtedly be made to feel crushed.

There was never a good war, or a bad peace.

To be prepared for war is one of the most effective means of preserving peace.

I was always taught not to answer no questions. I’m not really good at answering them because I get agitated so fast.

Listen with the intent to understand, not the intent to reply.

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

I’m not a person that socializes very well.

We cannot learn from one another until we stop shouting at one another – until we speak quietly enough so that our words can be heard as well as our voices.

All wars signify the failure of conflict resolution mechanisms, and they need post-war rebuilding of faith, trust and confidence.

Most negotiators are trying to get their way.

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

Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.

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

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

Disagreement is something normal.

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.

A person standing in front of an audience without enthusiasm for his subject and his actions is disconnected from his spirit.

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

There can be no doubt that the average man blames much more than he praises. His instinct is to blame. If he is satisfied he says nothing; if he is not, he most illogically kicks up a row.

It’s a lose-lose situation to get in a confrontation on the street. If you can break contact and get away, break contact and get away. That’s what you should learn self-defense for.

To me, constructive criticism is when people take ownership of their ideas. That’s why I don’t listen to anything that’s anonymous. But it’s hard; when there’s something hurtful out there, I still want to read it over and over and memorize it and explain my point of view to the person.

Because I know about the Holy Land, I’ve taught lessons about the Holy Land all my life, and – but you can’t bring peace to Israel without giving the Palestinian also peace. And Lebanon and Jordan and Syria as well.

God’s love is too great to be confined to any one side of a conflict or to any one religion.

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

Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men.

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

When we turn to one another for counsel we reduce the number of our enemies.

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

What is human warfare but just this; an effort to make the laws of God and nature take sides with one party.

War is an instrument entirely inefficient toward redressing wrong; and multiplies, instead of indemnifying losses.

People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.

Together we must learn how to compose differences, not with arms, but with intellect and decent purpose.

If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world.

Unless both sides win, no agreement can be permanent.

Transforming yourself into a deep listener will not only prove more amusing as you open your mind to their mind, but you will gain the most invaluable lessons about human psychology.

Talk low, talk slow and don’t say too much.

I don’t do meetings.

When we quarrel, how we wish we had been blameless.

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

The purpose of separation of church and state is to keep forever from these shores the ceaseless strife that has soaked the soil of Europe with blood for centuries.

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

It is understanding that gives us an ability to have peace. When we understand the other fellow’s viewpoint, and he understands ours, then we can sit down and work out our differences.

But I do not believe that the world would be entirely different if there were more women leaders. 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.

No weapon has ever settled a moral problem. It can impose a solution but it cannot guarantee it to be a just one.

As we dread any disease that undermines the health of the body, so should we deplore contention, which is a corroding canker of the spirit.

I have a scheme for stopping war. It’s this – no nation is allowed to enter a war till they have paid for the last one.

Resist the need to be ‚right‘ all the time or to always have the last word.

I’m just preparing my impromptu remarks.

When it comes to knowing what to say, to charm, I always had it.

Extemporaneous speaking should be practiced and cultivated. It is the lawyer’s avenue to the public. However able and faithful he may be in other respects, people are slow to bring him business if he cannot make a speech.

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

I thought my life was mapped out. Research, living in the forest, teaching and writing. But in ’86 I went to a conference and realised the chimpanzees were disappearing. I had worldwide recognition and a gift of communication. I had to use them.

Politics are very much like war. We may even have to use poison gas at times.

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

A coward is much more exposed to quarrels than a man of spirit.

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

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.