"Cool it....Use your anger wisely."
- From the song 'Keep a Cool Head' by Reel Big Fish
https://youtu.be/TIuP2_xSXbk

"Be courteous to all, but intimate with few; and let those be well-tried before you give them your confidence."
- George Washington

"Dealing with backstabbers, there was one thing I learned. They're only powerful when you got your back turned."
- Eminem

"You're  right. People do lie, and cheat, and stab you in the back. There will be people who use you, and don't love you even though they say they do. But you can't let that stop you from living. Because there are people out there who do love you, and would never hurt you. You have to find those people and keep them in your life forever."
- J. Johnson

"Throughout life people will make you mad, disrespect you and treat you bad. Let God deal with the things they do, cause hate in your heart will consume you too."
- Will Smith

In the movie Stepmom, do you think the stepmom kept a level head when mom infuriated her?

Movie: Stepmom
https://youtu.be/sl8t5HNDUjo

"One must always try to see the truth of a situation - it makes things universal."
- V. S. Naipaul

"I teach people that no matter what the situation is, no matter how chaotic, no matter how much drama is around you, you can heal by your presence if you just stay within your center."
- Deepak Chopra

"I've always had that knack for staying pretty even keel and the more the situation gets tense the more I see things clearly and I think that's just a knack that I've always had."
- Tiger Woods

"I believe the ability to think is blessed. If you can think about a situation, you can deal with it. The big struggle is to keep your head clear enough to think."
- Richard Pryor

Are you a hothead (someone who gets angry or agitated easily)?
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/hothead
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=hothead

Keep your cool / Keep your head (Idiom) - Remain calm in a difficult situation
http://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/keep+head

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It helps when you maintain a level head when others make life difficult for you. 

Humor or just handling the situation in a very bad way?

"Oh, and he don't know...
That I dug my key into the side
of his pretty little souped up 4 wheel drive,
carved my name into his leather seats,
I took a Louisville slugger to both headlights,
slashed a hole in all 4 tires...
Maybe next time he'll think before he cheats."
- From the song 'Before He Cheats' by Carrie Underwood
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WaSy8yy-mr8

Humor could also be used to annoy your enemies....

Clip from the movie 'The Golden Child'
https://youtu.be/o50HHf9f_SQ

Humor can sway others to see things your way in a non-threatening way....

Clip from the movie 'The Mask'
https://youtu.be/RJGaYLhgWLs

"Sometimes the situation is only a problem because it is looked at in a certain way. Looked at in another way, the right course of action may be so obvious that the problem no longer exists."
- Edward de Bono

"Humour is the weapon of unarmed people: it helps people who are oppressed to smile at the situation that pains them."
- Simon Wiesenthal

"Through humor, you can soften some of the worst blows that life delivers. And once you find laughter, no matter how painful your situation might be, you can survive it."
- Bill Cosby

"If evil be said of thee, and if it be true, correct thyself; if it be a lie, laugh at it."
- Epictetus