You become the sum of your actions, and as you do, what flows from that — your impulses — reflect the actions you’ve taken. Choose wisely. - Ryan Holiday

We are a product of our teachers and our mentors. There would be no Plato without Socrates. There would be no Aristotle without Plato. There would be no Marcus Aurelius without Rusticus or Epictetus or Antoninus.

A good person dyes events with his own color . . . and turns whatever happens to his own benefit.

To each,” Winston Churchill would say, “there comes in their lifetime a special moment when they are figuratively tapped on the shoulder and offered the chance to do a very special thing, unique to them and fitted to their talents. What a tragedy if that moment finds them unprepared or unqualified for that which could have been their finest hour.