When someone threatens me, I don’t threaten them back. Bad people don’t respond to threats. They respond to violence. The only time I point a gun at someone is when I’m going to shoot that person.

I had no idea how to respond, and opted for a smile, which serves me well on most occasions (not if it’s something to do with death or illness, though — I know that now.)

Never did he fail to respond savagely to the chatter of the squirrel he had first met on the blasted pine.

People will be able to raise their concerns: what are local officers doing about the drug dealing in the local park? What’s happening about the pub where all the trouble is? And the police will have to respond

People will be able to raise their concerns: what are local officers doing about the drug dealing in the local park? What’s happening about the pub where all the trouble is? And the police will have to respond

I have no idea what happens, but I do respond to other cultures that treat life with a much more positive approach. It teaches – especially when you’re a child – it teaches you to be afraid of everything, you feel like something bad is always going to happen. As to where that other way seems a much more spiritual and positive approach.

The most important thing is to listen, not to respond

What we need is somebody who can coalesce the energies in this country, which are now both black and white, into another party which can respond to the needs of the people.

Remember, Maya: the things we respond to at twenty are not necessarily the same things we will respond to at forty and vice versa. This is true in books and also in life.

To oppression… we respond with life.

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

I think it’s my responsibility, as a person of influence—to sometimes try to do what I can

In the final analysis, the questions of why bad things happen to good people transmutes itself into some very different questions, no longer asking why something happened, but asking how we will respond, what we intend to do now that it happened.

Most Americans do not know what their strengths are. When you ask them, they look at you with a blank stare, or they respond in terms of subject knowledge, which is the wrong answer.

Kill them with success and bury them with a big smile.

Although you may not always be able to avoid difficult situations, you can modify the extent to which you can suffer by how you choose to respond to the situation.

Do not worry about why problems exist in the world – just respond to people’s needs.

People respond in accordance to how you treat them.

Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way, we see them.

The picture that we have of ourselves — our self-concept — will always determine how we respond to life.