A year ago our position looked forlorn, and well nigh desperate, to all eyes but our own. Today we may say aloud before an awe-struck world, 'We are still masters of our fate. We still are captain of our souls.

It's been my fate to compensate for the childhood I've never known.

No one but myself can be blamed for my fall. I have been my own greatest enemy-the cause of my own disastrous fate.

Our hour is marked, and no one can claim a moment of life beyond what fate has predestined.

Now we are the masters of our fate, that the task which has been set us is not above our strength; that its pangs and toils are not beyond our endurance. As long as we have faith in our cause and an unconquerable willpower, salvation will not be denied us.

There is no such thing as accident; it is fate misnamed.