No one can make you jealous, angry, vengeful, or greedy—unless you let them.

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

No man should be angry with what is true.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

Fundamentally, there are only to ways of coordinating the economic activities of millions. One is central direction involving the use of coercion — the technique of the army and the modern totalitarian state. The other is voluntary cooperation — the technique of the marketplace.

If you haven't the strength to impose your own terms upon life, then you must accept the terms it offers you.

Have to and get to—both are choices. One is negative and one is positive. Choose the right one and it can change your life.

Were it offered to my choice, I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults in the first.

Decided only to be undecided, resolved to be irresolute, adamant for drift, solid for fluidity, all-powerful to be impotent.

Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision.

I must be a mermaid, I have no fear of depths, and a great fear of shallow living.

We are the creative force of our life, and through our own decisions rather than our conditions, if we carefully learn to do things, we can accomplish those goals.

You can’t change how people treat you or what they say about you. All you can do is change how you react to it.

Man is free at the moment he wishes to be.

The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody had decided not to see.

It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong.

When someone makes a decision, he is really diving into a strong current that will carry him to places he had never dreamed of when he first made the decision.

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

We all walk in the dark and each of us must learn to turn on his or her own light.

There is only one success—to be able to spend your life in your own way.

I define love thus: The will to extend one's self for the purpose of nurturing one's own or another's spiritual growth.

A great man is hard on himself; a small man is hard on others.

In reading lives of great people, I found the first victory won was over themselves.

The only competition worthy of a wise man is with himself.