Candy Or Self-Control?

"The intelligent want self-control; Children want candy."

I don't know about you, but I'd like the candy AND the self-control. :)

Nietzsche (see Notes on Thus Spoke Zarathustra) likes to say: "He who cannot command himself should obey. And many can command themselves but much is still lacking before they can obey themselves."

And Leonardo da Vinci tells us: "One can have no smaller or greater mastery than mastery of oneself."

Another way Rumi says "The lion who breaks the enemy's ranks is a minor hero compared to the lion who overcomes himself."

What about you?

How's your self mastery?