Anger is the enemy of non-violence and pride is a monster that swallows it up.

Certainly, in taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy, but in passing it over, he is superior; for it is a prince’s part to pardon.

Anger cannot be dishonest.

I think war is so incredibly backward, and I don’t think it’s intelligent, and it’s not sane. So why would you want to support it?

Anyone who seeks to destroy the passions instead of controlling them is trying to play the angel.

A well governed appetite is the greater part of liberty.

Jack Kerouac influenced me quite a bit as a writer… in the Arab sense that the enemy of my enemy was my friend.

There’s nothing wrong with anger provided you use it constructively.

When angry, count to four; when very angry, swear.

We must, I believe, start teaching our children the sanity of nonviolence much earlier.

Mindfulness practices enhance the connection between our body, our mind and everything else that is around us. Mindful living is the key to understanding our struggles with weight and to empowering us to control our weight.

I don’t think your ability to fight has anything to do with how big you are. It’s to do with how much anger is in you.

Nothing is so aggravating than calmness.

Peace is more important than all justice; and peace was not made for the sake of justice, but justice for the sake of peace.

The English are predisposed to pride, the French to vanity.

You can have no dominion greater or less than that over yourself.

Silence is safer than speech.

The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.

I felt like, for so many years – and I still even feel it – as a girl, you can’t really expect to go on stage and dress like a boy and jump around and scream with the audience and mosh and stuff, and every time that happens, I feel really proud.

I’ve never fought with anyone. A lot of people talk to me, and they’re like, ‚Oh, you would have been fighting all the time when you were younger,‘ but I’m like, ‚I never fought with anyone because I always knew that if I hurt myself, I might lose important time in my cricket career,‘ so I never got into any fight, ever in my life.

Peace in the world starts with peace in oneself. If everyone lives mindfully, everyone will be more healthy, feel more fulfilled in their daily lives and there will be more peace.

I believe that many of my young guys lived because I didn’t waste their lives because I didn’t have the vision in my mind of how to destroy the enemy at least cost to our guys and to the innocents on the battlefields.

Have we not come to such an impasse in the modern world that we must love our enemies – or else? The chain reaction of evil – hate begetting hate, wars producing more wars – must be broken, or else we shall be plunged into the dark abyss of annihilation.

I think that, whatever happens, I’m just happy I’ve written those songs and I’ve made an album. That’s really big for me, and I’m proud of that.

We’re in the last days, man – I truly, in my heart, believe that. It’s written. I could go on with biblical situations and things my grandma told me. But it’s about being at peace with myself and making good with the people around me.

Virtue is insufficient temptation.

War is never a lasting solution for any problem.

I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me.

Concentrated power has always been the enemy of liberty.

Non-violence requires a double faith, faith in God and also faith in man.

The best weapon against an enemy is another enemy.

Men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more than their words.

Every day, the people I meet inspire me… every day, they make me proud… every day they remind me how blessed we are to live in the greatest nation on earth.

I cannot always control what goes on outside. But I can always control what goes on inside.

When will mankind be convinced and agree to settle their difficulties by arbitration?

If there is not the war, you don’t get the great general; if there is not a great occasion, you don’t get a great statesman; if Lincoln had lived in a time of peace, no one would have known his name.

When angry count to ten before you speak. If very angry, count to one hundred.

I like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives. I like to see a man live so that his place will be proud of him.

To have in general but little feeling, seems to be the only security against feeling too much on any particular occasion.

I didn’t want to be a writer, but I became one. And now I have many readers, in many countries. I think that’s a miracle. So I think I have to be humble regarding this ability. I’m proud of it and I enjoy it, and it is strange to say it this way, but I respect it.

You accept that this civilisation could be abolished and life will begin later on after a few thousand years because that is something that has happened in the history of this planet. When you have peace in yourself and accept, then you are calm enough to do something, but if you are carried by despair there is no hope.

There must be a reason why some people can afford to live well. They must have worked for it. I only feel angry when I see waste. When I see people throwing away things that we could use.

Let not the 12 million Negroes be ashamed of the fact that they are the grandchildren of slaves. There is dishonor in being slave-owners.

Where ignorance is our master, there is no possibility of real peace.

I believe God’s keeping the records, and I believe you will be rewarded even in this life. Somehow, some way, God will make it up to you. It may be He protected you from an accident you never knew. You can’t give God something without God giving you more in return, whether it’s peace or joy or satisfaction.

Wars are, of course, as a rule to be avoided; but they are far better than certain kinds of peace.

The honor of a nation is its life.

My songs have always been frustrating themes, relationships that I’ve had. And now that I’m in love, I expect it to be really happy, or at least there won’t be half as much anger as there was.

Peace is not made at the council table or by treaties, but in the hearts of men.

Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact.

To be prepared for war is one of the most effective means of preserving peace.

I don’t feel bitterness, I don’t feel anger towards anybody. Fighting is never emotional to me.

Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.

In defense of our persons and properties under actual violation, we took up arms. When that violence shall be removed, when hostilities shall cease on the part of the aggressors, hostilities shall cease on our part also.

Don’t get the impression that you arouse my anger. You see, one can only be angry with those he respects.

Nothing good ever comes of violence.

War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good. We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other’s children.

If I cry, it’s because I’m very angry and I can’t do anything about it because I’ve run into a dead end. That’s when the tears would come down.

You may either win your peace or buy it: win it, by resistance to evil; buy it, by compromise with evil.

Observe good faith and justice toward all nations. Cultivate peace and harmony with all.

All these walls that keep us from loving each other as one family or one race – racism, religion, where we grew up, whatever, class, socioeconomic – what makes us be so selfish and prideful, what keeps us from wanting to help the next man, what makes us be so focused on a personal legacy as opposed to the entire legacy of a race.