The best executive is one who has sense enough to pick good people to do what he wants done and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it.

One must learn if one is to see the beauty in Japan to like an extraordinarily restrained and delicate loveliness.

I do not see any beauty in self-restraint.

Diplomacy: the art of restraining power.

Without freedom no art art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself and dies of all others.

When anger rushes unrestrained to action like a hot steed it stumbles on its way. The man of thought strikes deepest and strikes safely.

The one who cannot restrain their anger will wish undone what their temper and irritation prompted them to do.

Anger if not restrained is frequently more hurtful to us than the injury that provokes it.