“Life is to be lived, not controlled.”

“I would like to suggest to you that you ‘grab life by the horns’ and do not let life grab you by the horns. You take control of your lives. … Do not let life control you. … Take charge. Rise to the divinity that is within you.”

“Even if it is difficult, it is ‘to develop, fix, and make yourself.’ Then you will control yourself well, live your life easily, and prosper.”

“We can control our lives by controling our perceptions.”

“So to live is heaven:
To make undying music in the world,
Breathing a beauteous order that controls
With growing sway the growing life of man.”

“The control of the production of wealth is the control of human life itself.”

“If power means having control over one's own life, then perhaps there is no better ranking of the impact of sex roles and racism on power over our own lives than life expectancy.”

“At a certain point in our lives, we lose control of what's happening to us, and our lives become controlled by fate. That's the world's greatest lie.”

“Control over the use of one's ideas really constitutes control over other people's lives; and it is usually used to make their lives more difficult.”

“It is not life that's complicated, it's the struggle to guide and control life.”