“The most powerful control we can ever attain, is to be in control of ourselves.”

“Whatever controls us is our lord. The person who seeks power is controlled by power. The person who seeks acceptance is controlled by acceptance. We do not control ourselves. We are controlled by the lord of our lives.”

“Self-control is a key factor in achieving success. We can't control everything in life, but we can definitely control ourselves.”

“We have no control over fate and history, but we can control how we conduct ourselves in this life.”

“Power can do everything but the most important thing: it cannot control love.”

“We like to look for patterns and find connections in unrelated events. This way we can explain them to ourselves. Life seems neater, or at least less messy. We need to feel we are in control: it is integral to our self-esteem. We also know, though we deny it, that we are not in control. So we settle for the illusions of control. What if we stopped fooling ourselves?”