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

“Life hinges on many factors we cannot control. Two of the most important factors, we can control. We can manage our relationships-and what is life but a series of relationships?-and we can correct our mistakes, here on earth within our life span.”

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

“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?”

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

“Because the thing about love is that we can't control whether we get it, but we can control whether we give it.”