"Destiny has a lot to do with it, but so do you. You have to persevere, you have to insist"

"The torment of precautions often exceeds the dangers to be avoided. It is sometimes better to abandon one's self to destiny"

"We have our own history, our own language, our own culture. But our destiny is also tied up with the destinies of other people - history has made us all South Africans"

"Anatomy is destiny"

"Only by joy and sorrow does a person know anything about themselves and their destiny. They learn what to do and what to avoid"

"So, if anatomy is destiny then testosterone is doom"

"Successful people are 100% convinced that they are masters of their own destiny, they're not creatures of circumstance, they create circumstance if the circumstances around them suck they change them"

"Your life will be no better than the plans you make and the action you take. You are the architect and builder of your own life, fortune, destiny"

"It is the lot of man to share in the deeper aspirations of the universe around him and to share his own destiny as well as that of the universe, now by adjusting himself to its forces, now by putting the whole of his energy to his own ends and purposes"

"No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made. Destiny is made known silently"

"Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny"