The value of a smile. It costs nothing, but creates much. It enriches those who receive, without impoverishing those who give. It happens in a flash and the memory of it sometimes lasts forever. None are so rich they can get along without it, and none are so poor but are richer for its benefit.

Intoxicated with their own egos, drunk with a sense of their own importance

Those who have the least justification for a feeling of achievement bolster up their egos by a show of tumult and conceit which is truly nauseating.

A man convinced against his will is of the same opinion still

There is only one way under high heaven to get the best of an argument – that is to avoid it.

Which would you rather have, an academic, theatrical victory or a person’s good will? You can seldom have both.

You maybe right, dead right, as you speed along in your argument; but as far as changing another’s mind is concerned, you will probably be just as futile as if you were wrong.

If you tell them they are wrong, do you make them want to agree with you? Never! For you have struck a direct blow at their intelligence, judgment, pride and self-respect. That will make them want to strike back. But it will never make them want to change their minds. You may then hurl at them all the logic of a Plato or an Immanuel Kant, but you will not alter their opinions, for you have hurt their feelings.

When we are wrong, we may admit it to ourselves. And if we are handled gently and tactfully, we may admit it to others and even take pride in our frankness and broad-mindedness. But not if someone else is trying to ram the unpalatable fact down our esophagus.

Nothing good is accomplished and a lot of damage can be done if you tell a person straight out that he or she is wrong. You only succeed in stripping that person of self-dignity and making yourself an unwelcome part of any discussion.

Let’s sit down and take counsel together, and I if we differ from each other, understand why it is that we differ, just what to pints at issue are, we will presently find that we are not so far apart after all, that the points on which we differ are few and the points on which we agree are many, and that if we only have the patience, candour and desire to get together, we will get together.