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 to our to-day.

One must never ask of fortune more than she can grant.

I don't believe in leaving things to luck. I believe in hard work and preparation.

Luck and destiny are the excuses of the world's failures.

Give me today, for once, the worst throw of your dice, destiny. Today I transmute everything into gold.

Destiny urges me to a goal of which I am ignorant. Until that goal is attained I am invulnerable, unassailable. When Destiny has accomplished her purpose in me, a fly may suffice to destroy me.