“Rule your mind or it will rule you.”

“My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them.”

“The ethos of redemption is realized in self-mastery, by means of temperance, that is, continence of desires.”

“Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power.”

“There's no reason to think that you'll be capable of loyalty to a diet until you address your basic disloyalty toward yo...”

“Man who man would be must rule the empire of himself.”

“Self-conquest is the greatest of victories.”

“The greatest of empires, is the empire over one's self.”

“Control what you can control.”