“Some things are in our control and others not. Things in our control are opinion, pursuit, desire, aversion, and, in a word, whatever are our own actions. Things not in our control are body, property, reputation, command, and, in one word, whatever are not our own actions.”

“Do we have free will, or do the mass media and our culture control us, our desires and actions, from the moment we’re born?”

“Guilt. It's this mechanism we use to control people. It's an illusion. It's a kind of social control mechanism and it's very unhealthy. It does terrible things to our body.”

“Our destinies are our own, if we have the courage to take control of them.”

“It takes extraordinary wisdom and self-control to accept that many things have a logic we do not understand that is smarter than our own.”

“There is no fate that plans men's lives. Whatever comes to us, good or bad, is usually the result of our own action or lack of action.”

“There is a realm of time where the goal is not to have but to be, not to own but to give, not to control but to share, not to subdue but to be in accord. Life goes wrong when the control of space, the acquisition of things of space, becomes our sole concern.”

“There is a Destiny which has the control of our actions, not to be resisted by the strongest efforts of Human Nature.”

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

“Your reputation is in the hands of others. That's what the reputation is. You can't control that. The only thing you can control is your character.”