Powerful people do not try to control other people. They know it doesn't work, and that it's not their job. Their job is to control themselves.

the anger we reveal in the middle of trial says more about us than it does about the trial.

Blowing up at people when our agendas are trampled

Or that passion to act a part that sometimes makes us do things finer than we are ourselves?

Remember, you can measure the size of a person by what makes him or her angry.

He never raised his voice, even in the midst of volatile situations.

And we can't all just get along. Rather, we have to become the kinds of persons who can get along. As a major part of this, our epidermal responses have to be changed in such a way that the fire and the fight doesn't start almost immediately when we are "rubbed the wrong way." Solitude and silence give us a place to begin the necessary changes, though they are not a place to stop.

Our "kingdom" is simply the range of our effective will. Whatever we genuinely have the say over is in our kingdom.

Great power requires great character if it is to be a blessing and not a curse, and that character is something we only grow toward.

Heroism, generally, is totally out of place in the spiritual life, until we grow to the point at which it would never be thought of as heroism anyway.

Emotions are not amoral—they vocalize the inner working of our souls and are as tainted as any other portion of our personality.

It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.