And when man faces destiny, destiny ends and man comes into his own.

There are not fifty ways of fighting, there's only one, and that's to win. Neither revolution nor war consists in doing what one pleases.

Man is not what he thinks he is, he is what he hides.

The first duty of a leader is to make himself be loved without courting love. To be loved without 'playing up' to anyone - even to himself.

Genius is not perfected, it is deepened. It does not so much interpret the world as fertilize itself with it.

Man knows that the world is not made on a human scale; and he wishes that it were.

Always, however brutal an age may actually have been, its style transmits its music only.

Art is a revolt against fate.

War puts its questions stupidly, peace mysteriously.

Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk - and to act.

All art is a revolt against man's fate.

Opium teaches only one thing, which is that aside from physical suffering, there is nothing real.

And when man faces destiny, destiny ends and man comes into his own.

An art book is a museum without walls.

There is always a need for intoxication: China has opium, Islam has hashish, the West has woman.

Communism destroys democracy. Democracy can also destroy Communism.

To command is to serve, nothing more and nothing less.

Then I despair... I remember that all through history, the way of truth and love has always won. There have been murderers and tyrants, and for a time they can seem invincible. But in the end they always fall. Think of it always.

The attempt to force human beings to despise themselves is what I call hell.

The crucial discovery was made that, in order to become painting, the universe seen by the artist had to become a private one created by himself.

To the humblest among them, who may be listening to me now, I want to say that the masterpiece to which you are paying historic homage this evening is a painting which he has saved.

Art is a revolt against fate. All art is a revolt against man's fate.

Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one’s ideas, to take a calculated risk – and to act.

There are not fifty ways of fighting there is only one to be the conqueror.

Every great masterpiece is a purification of the world.

The world of art is not a world of immortality but of metamorphosis.

In the realm of human destiny, the depth of man's questionings is more important than his answers.

The terrible thing about death is that it transforms life into destiny.

If we cannot shape our destiny there is no such thing as witchcraft.

We bear a heavy and therefore a great destiny.

To be a Jew is a destiny.

You can be great only if it is your destiny.

At times, we were forced to go through a history of dependence, unable to determine our own destiny. But today, we are at the threshold of a new turning point.

So that is how I ended up with those two titles, I like Accidentally on Purpose better - it is how we work in our trade - is it really an accident, or is there a thread of destiny in there? That was the intention, I am not sure I found out.

There is one type of ideal woman very seldom described in poetry - the old maid, the woman whom sorrow or misfortune prevents from fulfilling her natural destiny.

Adapt yourself to the things among which your lot has been cast and love sincerely the fellow creatures with whom destiny has ordained that you shall live.

The destiny of man is in his own soul.

Let there be no illusions about the difficulty of forming this kind of a national community. It's tough, difficult, not easy. But a spirit of harmony will survive in America only if each of us remembers that we share a common destiny.

So, if anatomy is destiny then testosterone is doom.

Black Power is giving power to people who have not had power to determine their destiny.

One knows less about one's own destiny than about anything else on earth.

Destiny waits alike for the free man as well as for him enslaved by another's might.

I believe that the people, instead of pretty lies, should be told the truth, no matter how ugly it may be. What can we do, destiny hasn't been kind to us; but, with the help of God, we will prevail.

Destiny is something men select; women achieve it only by default or stupendous suffering.

God like Us suffers the ambition to make a destiny more extraordinary than was conceived for Him, yes God is like Me, only more so.

The SA is, and remains, Germany's destiny.

Your destiny is my destiny. Your happiness is my happiness.

I was interested in being in Fight Club, but I wanted Edward's part, but since they're not going to hand a girl those parts you have to manifest destiny and not complain, bitch or whine.

It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link of the chain of destiny can be handled at a time.