CHASE HUGHES: Silence is your sword and self-control is your shield.

Every time that you don't respond to a provocation, every single time that you withhold explanation, every time that you don't let somebody into your emotional living room, you're building muscle.  And this is Authority muscle, self-respect muscle, self-esteem muscle if you want to call it that.  Silence is your sword and self-control is your shield.  People will say, "Don't take it personally," as if it were easy, but you can do that.  And when you master it, you truly become unreachable.  It's not because you're hiding, it's because you choose to be.  So the world has no choice but to respect that, and they may not like that but they're definitely going to feel it and they will adjust.  People always adjust.