For your next sculpture, how about a Caesar Marcus Aurelius? I was recently reading an article about this guy. Here's a clip from Gladiator where Marcus talks with Maximus about taking over as Caesar when he dies:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h8MtObh-wDo
The CEOs of LDS Corporation just offer empty platitudes, quoting each other standing on the shoulders of real giants of the past, taking credit where it's not due. Original thoughts from great leaders like Marcus are the source of some incredible truths that require no gods or religious inversions hanging over or around them, distorting them to their own selfish purposes. During his reign, Caesar Marcus Aurelius often wrote his thoughts down in a journal. Here's a few gems:
"You have power over your mind — not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.”
“The needs of a happy life are very few.”
“You don’t have to turn this into something. It doesn’t have to upset you.”
“The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way.”
“Waste no more time arguing what a good man should be. Be one.”
“Just that you do the right thing. The rest doesn’t matter.”
“Understand that your time has a limit set to it. Use it, then to advance your enlightenment; or it will be gone, and never in your power again.”
