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

"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"

"Money is the string with which a sardonic destiny directs the motions of its puppets"

"Every man gotta right to decide his own destiny"

"It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves"

"Destiny grants us our wishes, but in its own way, in order to give us something beyond our wishes"

"A consistent soul believes in destiny, a capricious one in chance"

"I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve"

"It is the awareness of unfulfilled desires which gives a nation the feeling that it has a mission and a destiny"

"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"

"Each religion, by the help of more or less myth, which it takes more or less seriously, proposes some method of fortifying the human soul and enabling it to make its peace with its destiny"