Our relationship is very good. When Ibra gets annoyed, I prefer not to reply because I know how he can react. I prefer to calmly count to ten.

Life is 5% what happens, and 95% how you react.

We work against a social evil. If this evil isn’t reacting it means we aren’t a threat.

My approach is simple – concentrate on the ball and react according to the situation.

I can love only what I can place so high above me that I cannot reach it.

To reach a port, we must sail – sail, not tie at anchor – sail, not drift

After writing a story I was always empty and both sad and happy, as though I had made love, and I was sure this was a very good story although I would not know truly how good until I read it over the next day.

To read is to let someone else work for you – the most delicate form of exploitation.

It’s not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.

Not to be born is undoubtedly the best plan of all. Unfortunately, it is within no one’s reach.

Don’t be afraid to reach for the stars

Forgiveness is not an emotion; it is an act of the will.

You know, eternal life does not start when we go to heaven. It starts the moment you reach out to Jesus. He never turns His back on anyone. And He is waiting for you.

You can’t enter a contest emotionally charged. It clouds your judgment, it clouds your reaction.

Each of us is a product of all our experiences and all our interactions with other people.

A fashion that does not reach the streets is not a fashion.

Setting a goal is like adding a catalyst to your success reaction.

The great matter is not how long you pray, but how earnestly you pray. Consider the life of the prayer rather than the length of the prayer. If your prayer reaches to heaven it is long enough.

Life is 10% of what happens to you, and 90% of how you react to it.

Nothing is worse than to finish a good shit, then reach over and find the toilet paper container empty. Even the most horrible human being on earth deserves to wipe his ass.

No tree, it is said, can grow to heaven unless its roots reach down to hell

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances—if there is any reaction, both are transformed

To see the positive reaction to my music makes me feel good

Those who wish to proceed in that direction cannot lay claim to progress. They are reactionary. Their ideas are not more modern, but more ancient than those of the Revolutionary fathers

You can’t change how people treat you or what they say about you. All you can do is change how you react to it.

Have the courage to act instead of react.

Never react emotionally to criticism. Analyze yourself to determine whether it is justified. If it is, correct yourself. Otherwise, go on about your business.

You shall, I question not, find a way to the top if you diligently seek for it; for nature hath placed nothing so high that it is out of the reach of industry and valor

Plodding wins the race

Vices are their own punishment

People react to fear, not love – they don’t teach that in Sunday School, but it’s true.