“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.

For me an unfavorable initial reaction happens fairly often.

. On television the first reactions are usually unfavorable.

I have no idea what the U.S. intends to do further there and what would be the reaction of the Iraqi people.

They should not expect an immediate reaction in return for their positive measures. It will take time.

I never even thought about whether or not they understand what I’m doing, the emotional reaction is all that matters as long as there’s some feeling of communication, it isn’t necessary that it be understood.

I have a 6-year-old, and his thing is to turn on Radio Disney in the car, and I get such an allergic reaction to listening to that music and the context into which it falls. I’m really working on him about that.

Man has a tendency to try to give clear reasons to be rational, but often you can see how all those reasons are not convincing and turn out to be a big nonsense.

Furthermore, the writer is not there to see the reaction of the person he writes to, so there’s a great unknown to the process that requires a leap of faith.