"God like Us suffers the ambition to make a destiny more extraordinary than was conceived for Him, yes God is like Me, only more so"

"Ambition is not a vice of little people"

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

"It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what others say in a whole book"

"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"

"Ambition is but avarice on stilts, and masked"

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

"Me only have one ambition, y'know. I only have one thing I really like to see happen. I like to see mankind live together - black, white, Chinese, everyone - that's all"

"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"