“How much time he gains who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks, but only at what he does himself, to make it just and holy.” - Marcus Aurelius

"Would you have a great empire? Then rule over yourself" - Publius Syrus

“Anger and the sorrow it produces are far more harmful than the things which make us angry.” -Marcus Aurelius

"What such a man needs is not courage but nerve control, cool headedness. This he can get only by practice" -Theodore Roosevelt

"It is in your own power to maintain the beauty of your soul, or to be a decent human being." - Marcus Aurelius