Some models of self-control are able to achieve their serenity easily because the soul fires never burn brightly to begin with.
Because he could not afford to fail, he could not afford to trust.
p. 274 ...his trademark decision to surrender power as commander in chief and then president, was not...a sign that he had conquered his ambitions, but rather that he fully realized that all ambitions were inherently insatiable and unconquerable. He ...
