“Its not stress that kills us, it is our reaction to it.”

To be totally without stress is to be dead.

Indeed, not all attacks-especially the bitter and ridiculing kind leveled at Darwin-are offered in good faith, but for practical purposes it is good policy to assume that they are.

Gratitude conserves the vital energies of a person more than any other attitude tested.

To make a great dream come true, you must first have a great dream.

Stress is the spice of life.

The builder of the best racing car is not necessarily its best driver.

Nothing erases unpleasant thoughts more effectively than conscious concentration on pleasant ones.

Gratitude is the most important of all human emotions.

Almost no germ is unconditionally dangerous to man; its disease-producing ability depends upon the body’s resistance.

My advice to any young person at the beginning of their career is to try to look for the mere outlines of big things with their fresh, untrained and unprejudiced mind.

Adopting the right attitude can convert a negative stress into a positive one.

Even after the greatest defeats, the depressing thought of being a failure is best combated by taking stock of all your past achievements.

Who would enjoy a life of no runs, no hits, no errors?

Every stress leaves an indelible scar, and the organism pays for its survival after a stressful situation by becoming a little older.

To remain healthy a man must have some goal, some purpose in life that he can respect and be proud to work for.

Stress is not necessarily something bad it all depends on how you take it. The stress of exhilarating, creative successful work is beneficial, while that of failure, humiliation or infection is detrimental.

Regardless of the situation, react with class.

I think if you’re talented and not desperate to do any film that comes your way, and are doing justice to all your roles, then you’re fine, because you can’t predict the rest. You also can’t predict the audience’s reaction.

We have a choice every day regarding the attitude we will embrace for the day. Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it. Our attitude is everything.

I don’t know how I would react to the casting couch. I’m sure that at that moment, you won’t really know what to do. Whatever you do at that moment is instinctive.

10% of life is made up of what happens to you. 90% of life is decided by how you react.

The amount of things I have been through and the remarkable ways in which the body has reacted is just phenomenal. No wonder I became religious, because you don’t know why something’s happening to you and you don’t know how you bounced back.

The first thing you have to know is yourself. A man who knows himself can step outside himself and watch his own reactions like an observer.

The NGO-ization of politics threatens to turn resistance into a well-mannered, reasonable, salaried, 9-to-5 job. With a few perks thrown in. Real resistance has real consequences. And no salary.