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.

The greatest remedy for anger is delay.

Any person capable of angering you becomes your master.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

No man should be angry with what is true.

When elephants fight, ants get killed.

The thing I hate about an argument is that it always interrupts a discussion.

The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep’s throat, for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as his liberator, while the wolf denounces him for the same act. . . . Plainly the sheep and the wolf are not agreed upon the definition of liberty.

Nonviolence is the answer to the crucial political and moral questions of our time; the need for man to overcome oppression and violence without resorting to oppression and violence.

Peace is not the absence of war, but a virtue based on strength of character.

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.

Whenever you're in conflict with someone, there is one factor that can make the difference between damaging your relationship and deepening it. That factor is attitude.

Beware of allowing a tactless word, a rebuttal, a rejection to obliterate the whole sky.

The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart and head and hands.

Know yourself. Don't accept your dog's admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful.

The clearest way in the Universe is through a forest wilderness.

Do not be embarrassed by your mistakes. Nothing can teach us better than our understanding of them. This is one of the best ways of self-education.