You can’t shake hands with a clenched fist.

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.

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.

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.

Any person capable of angering you becomes your master.

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

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

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.

Extremists on all sides thrive, fed by the blood lust of centuries gone by.

When elephants fight, ants get killed.

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.

The best revenge is not to be like your enemy.

Never cross a man, not afraid to die.

With reasonable men, I will reason; with humane men I will plead; but to tyrants I will give no quarters, nor waste arguments where they will certainly be lost.

I have seen enough of one war never to wish to see another.

Peace is a daily, a weekly, a monthly process, gradually changing opinions, slowly eroding old barriers, quietly building new structures.

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

If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace, and this single reflection, well applied, is sufficient to awaken every man to duty.

Lord, make me an instrument of Your peace. Where there is hatred let me sow love; where there is injury, pardon; where there is doubt, faith; where there is despair, hope; where there is darkness, light; and where there is sadness, joy.

He who has peace of mind disturbs neither himself nor another.

He that blows the coals in quarrels that he has nothing to do with, has no right to complain if the sparks fly in his face.

No house should ever be on any hill or on anything. It should be of the hill, belonging to it, so hill and house could live together each the happier for the other.