Anybody can become angry—that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way—that is not within everybody’s power and is not easy.

If you spend your time hoping someone will suffer the consequences for what they did to your heart, then you’re allowing them to hurt you a second time in your mind.

Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance. Where there is patience and humility, there is neither anger nor vexation. Where there is poverty and joy, there is neither greed nor avarice. Where there is peace and meditation, there is neither anxiety nor doubt.

My anger is more likely to do me more harm than your wrong.

The greatest remedy for anger is delay.

No man should be angry with what is true.

There is but one thing of real value—to cultivate truth and justice, and to live without anger in the midst of lying and unjust men.

As I walked out the door to my freedom I knew that, if I did not leave all the anger, hatred and resentment behind, I would remain a prisoner.

Rest satisfied with doing well, and leave others to talk of you as they will.

We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we were sure, stifling it would be an evil still.

A fast way to demolish relationships, shatter credibility and disrespect yourself is by not following through when you say you are going to do something.

It takes two years to learn to speak and sixty to learn to keep quiet.

Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.

Never miss a good chance to shut up.

No problem is so deep that it cannot be overcome, given the will of all parties, through discussion and negotiation rather than force and violence.