If we ourselves remain angry and then sing world peace, it has little meaning. First, our individual self must learn peace. This we can practice. Then we can teach the rest of the world.

No man should be angry with what is true.

Revenge and retaliation always perpetuate the cycle of anger, fear and violence.

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

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.

Any person capable of angering you becomes your master.

Anger, resentment and jealousy doesn’t change the heart of others—it only changes yours.

Usually when people are sad, they don’t do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change.

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.

How could man rejoice in victory and delight in the slaughter of men?

If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen.

You may shoot me with your words, you may cut me with your eyes, you may kill me with your hatefulness, but still, like air, I'll rise.

Peace by persuasion has a pleasant sound, but I think we should not be able to work it. We should have to tame the human race first, and history seems to show that that cannot be done.

If you compromise your own conscience, you will weaken your conscience. Soon your conscience will fail to guide you and you never will have real wealth based on peace of mind.

Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression, and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.

To be able to practice five things everywhere under the heaven constitutes perfect virtue. . . gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness and kindness.

Real excellence does not come cheaply. A certain price must be paid in terms of practice, patience, and persistence—natural ability notwithstanding.

If you are ever tempted to look for outside approval, realize that you have compromised your integrity.

At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want.

Emotions are inherent in your nature, but their content is dictated by your mind.

Being aware of a single shortcoming within yourself is far more useful than being aware of a thousand in someone else!

Oh, I offended you with my opinion? You should hear the the ones I keep to myself.

There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening, that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique. And if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and will be lost.

You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, buy you will never imprison my mind.