A fool gives full vent to anger, but a wise person quietly holds it back…A hot-tempered person starts fights and gets into all kinds of sin.
Proverbs 29:11,22

Lots of people have the power to hurt or frustrate me. But whether or not I express my anger when they do is my choice. People don't "make me" angry; I allow myself to express my anger. No one else can make me respond aggressively or inappropriately when I feel anger. It often seems just the opposite because my response to feeling anger has become so routine that it seems "automatic." It feels as if the person or event triggered my anger and caused my response.

The truth is, so many of my responses to anger result from learned behavior. I learned it long ago, from people I grew up around. And I learned it so informally that I was not even aware of it.

Tommy Bolt has been described as the angriest golfer in the history of a game that has stimulated the secretion of more bile than any other single human activity outside of war and ...