I have noticed that even those who assert that everything is predestined and that we can change nothing about it still look both ways before they cross the street.

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

Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you.

This is the thing that I was born to do.

Let us resolve to be masters, not victims, of our history, controlling our own destiny without giving way to blind suspicions and emotions.

Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature; it is our future that lays down the law of our today.

One love, one heart, one destiny.

Never trouble another for what you can do for yourself.

Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody else expects of you. Never excuse yourself. Never pity yourself. Be a hard master to yourself—and be lenient to everybody else.

In a word, each man is questioned by life; and he can only answer to life by answering for his own life; to life he can only respond by being responsible.

We know of no culture that has said, articulately, that there is no difference between men and women except in the way they contribute to the creation of the next generation.

Next to the assumption of power is the responsibility of relinquishing it.

We do not do what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are—that is a fact.

We are all one family in the world. Building a community that empowers everyone to attain their full potential through each of us respecting each other's dignity, rights and responsibilities makes thee world a better place to live.