The madder it makes you, the harder you need to laugh at it.

Have you had a failure or rejection? You could get bitter. That's one way to deal with it. Or...you could just get BETTER. What do you think?

I would much rather be considered wise than smart. But, I still think it is wise to get an education.

Granny Weatherwax was often angry. She considered it one of her strong points. Genuine anger was one of the world's greatest creative forces. But you had to learn how to control it. That didn't mean you let it trickle away. It meant you dammed it, carefully, let it develop a working head, let it drown whole valleys of the mind and then, just when the whole structure was about to collapse, opened a tiny pipeline at the base and let the iron-hard stream of wrath power the turbines of revenge.

I had a lot of mixed emotions -- anger and bitterness (and) a lot of questions that were not answered.

. . . mixing defensiveness with anger - a wonderful mix, by the way.