“You can't control everything. You can't control how someone feels about you. Or what makes them tick. You can only control how you react, how you act, how you think and feel.”

“You can't help what you feel, but you can help how you behave”

“you can't escape the world, and you're not responsible for how you look, if you look beauticious or butt ugly. you're not responsible for how you feel or what you say or how you act or anything you do. it's all out of your hands.”

“Anyway, it doesn't matter how much, how often, or how closely you keep an eye on things because you can't control it. Sometimes things and people just go. Just like that.”

“My dad always says, some people will treat you badly and you can't help that. But how you handle it and how it makes you feel, that's up to you.”

“If you want to control someone, all you have to do is to make them feel afraid.”

“You can't control what you can't measure”

“Your reputation is in the hands of others. That's what the reputation is. You can't control that. The only thing you can control is your character.”

“What good are all these books to you? You can't eat them! How can they make you happy?”

“Withstanding hardships is a sort of sport. You can’t control how life plays, but you can control your defensive strategy.”