Destiny is a name often given in retrospect to choices that had dramatic consequences.

It is the responsibility of leadership to work intelligently with what is given, and not to waste time fantasizing about a world of flawless people and perfect choices.

He who lets the world, or his own portion of it, choose his plan of life for him, has no need of any other faculty than the ape-like one of imitation.

Have to and get to—both are choices. One is negative and one is positive. Choose the right one and it can change your life.

Man is free at the moment he wishes to be.

I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels. Life's a bitch. You've got to go out and kick ass.

Freedom is what we do with what is done to us.

More is lost by indecision than wrong decision.

If you haven't the strength to impose your own terms upon life, then you must accept the terms it offers you.

Free will, though it makes evil possible, is also the only thing that makes possible any love or good or joy worth having.

There's no such thing as chance; and what to us seems merest accident springs from the deepest source of destiny.

Sow a thought, and you reap an act; Sow an act, and you reap a habit; Sow a habit, and you reap character; Sow a character, and you reap a destiny.

This is the thing that I was born to do.

Whatever happens at all happens as it should; you will find this true, if you watch narrowly.

The generation of Americans has a rendezvous with destiny.