"The first step: Don't be anxious. Nature controls all. And before long, you'll be no one, nowhere - like Hadrian, like Augustus."
"The second step: Concentrate on what you have to do. Fix your eyes on it. Remind yourself that your task is to be a good human being; remind yourself what nature demands of people."
"Then do it, without hesitation, and speak the truth as you see it."
"But with kindness. With humility. Without hypocrisy." - Marcus Aurelius
