Patricia Pearson

Control is not what we need. What we need is to bend to the tempest like pine and palm trees--flexible, adaptive, attuned, yet fully rooted in our principles.

--from A Brief History of Anxiety (Yours and Mine)

Gandhi

Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do is in perfect harmony.

Xenophon

Anger is so devoid of forethought that it will often drive a man to do things which in a calmer mood he will regret.

From On Horsemanship, 365 BC.