Salman Rushdie Quotes

I'm sorry, if you were right, I'd agree with you.

It's hard for a fellow to keep a chip on his shoulder if you allow him to take a bow.

If you're willing to tell somebody that you love them, are you also willing to say you're sorry? You need to, even when you think you're in the right.

As we look around, it's very clear that in this world people do outrageous things to one another all of the time. It's not that these qualities or actions make us bad people, but they bring tremendous suffering if we don't know how to work with them.

Anger is the enemy of non-violence and pride is a monster that swallows it up.

I am hoping that in this year of the family we will go into our families and reconcile differences.

To keep your marriage brimming, With love in the loving cup, Whenever you're wrong, admit it; Whenever you're right, shut up.

I would hope that understanding and reconciliation are not limited to the 19th hole alone.

If you have an argument with someone and you sulk, sometimes you don't want to speak to them. But it is important to keep your friends close to you and do the right things.

If a man can beat you, walk him.

A word of truth can mobilise two peoples looking for the road to reconciliation.

I think most of the time when people have big disagreements and big misunderstandings, when time lessens that blow it creates a deeper understanding for both people.

Peace does not include a vendetta; there will be neither winners nor losers.

Man forgives woman anything save the wit to outwit him.

Force may subdue, but love gains, and he that forgives first wins the laurel.

The wise man... if he would live at peace with others, he will bear and forbear.

I don't like anybody to be angry with me. I'd rather have friends.

I was embarrassed by my parents. I thought they had nothing of interest to say or contribute to anything. My real crime was not understanding that they were interesting, and I have been trying to make it up to them for being so indescribably blase, so genuinely uninterested and dismissive.

Never go to bed mad. Stay up and fight.

The best you can sometimes do is learn to take a breath, count to ten and simply accept that try as you might, no, your husband will never, ever learn not to drop a wet towel on the bed. That acceptance too counts as resolving a fight.

I have heard, 'Never go to bed angry,' and that makes sense. Unless you're always checking yourself, a grudge or something small can break apart a relationship, and you start to forget what is so amazing about your partner.

Peace comes through dealing with people. Peace doesn't come at the end of a bayonet or the end of a gun.

We can come to look upon the deaths of our enemies with as much regret as we feel for those of our friends, namely, when we miss their existence as witnesses to our success.

Friends confront each other sometimes, and sometimes the friendship lasts, and sometimes it doesn't.

Mostly I am sorry for the way I thought of other people. Like a good general, I had treated everyone who wasn't with me as against me.