What is good is difficult, and what is difficult is rare.
~ Robert Farrar Capon
Mastery is not something that strikes in an instant, like a thunderbolt, but a gathering power that moves steadily through time, like weather.
~ John Gardner
Fear is a powerful beast, if it is allowed the mastery.
~ Mary Balogh
The mastery of nature is vainly believed to be an adequate substitute for self mastery.
~ Reinhold Niebuhr
We talk of our mastery of nature, which sounds very grand; but the fact is we respectfully adapt ourselves, first, to her ways.
~ Clarence Day
Only one who devotes himself to a cause with his whole strength and soul can be a true master. For this reason mastery demands all of a person.
~ Albert Einstein
The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.
~ Alfred Lord Tennyson
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.
~ Mark Twain
