I came in with Halley’s Comet in 1835. It is coming again next year, and I expect to go out with it. It will be the greatest disappointment of my life if I don’t go out with Halley’s Comet. The Almighty has said, no doubt: ‚Now here are these two unaccountable freaks; they came in together, they must go out together.‘

The men who have guided the destiny of the United States have found the strength for their tasks by going to their knees. This private unity of public men and their God is an enduring source of reassurance for the people of America.

In a universe that’s an intelligent system with a divine creative force supporting it, there simply can be no accidents. As tough as it is to acknowledge, you had to go through what you went through in order to get to where you are today, and the evidence is that you did.

In England, an inventor is regarded almost as a crazy man, and in too many instances, invention ends in disappointment and poverty. In America, an inventor is honoured, help is forthcoming, and the exercise of ingenuity, the application of science to the work of man, is there the shortest road to wealth.

Fate pulls you in different directions.

Character is destiny.

Destiny grants us our wishes, but in its own way, in order to give us something beyond our wishes.

The size of your success is measured by the strength of your desire; the size of your dream; and how you handle disappointment along the way.

It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.

Whatever the universal nature assigns to any man at any time is for the good of that man at that time.

Our desires always disappoint us; for though we meet with something that gives us satisfaction, yet it never thoroughly answers our expectation.

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 smaller the planets are, they are, other things being equal, of so much the greater density; for so the powers of gravity on their several surfaces come nearer to equality. They are likewise, other things being equal, of the greater density, as they are nearer to the sun.

Talent and intelligence never yet inoculated anyone against the caprice of the fates.

I’ll think I have a few wonderful friends and all of a sudden, ooh, here it comes. They do a lot of things. They talk about you to the press, to their friends, tell stories, and you know, it’s disappointing.

The high destiny of the individual is to serve rather than to rule.

I have always felt it is my destiny to build a machine that would allow man to fly.

And yet it moves.

Space is almost infinite. As a matter of fact, we think it is infinite.

I believe nothing happens by mistake. You know, the universe has a divine plan. That sounds dramatic.

Man is supposed to be the maker of his destiny. It is only partly true. He can make his destiny, only in so far as he is allowed by the Great Power.

I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act.

Just because something didn’t work out your way, or somebody disappointed you, that does not change who you are.

Concern for man and his fate must always form the chief interest of all technical endeavors. Never forget this in the midst of your diagrams and equations.

We must all suffer one of two things: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret or disappointment.

I think a lot of the American people feel more than a little disappointed that the high-water mark for human exploration was 1969. The dream of human space travel has almost died for a lot of people.

The Milky Way is nothing else but a mass of innumerable stars planted together in clusters.

Whatever I will become will be what God has chosen for me.

The difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large matter – ‚tis the difference between the lightning-bug and the lightning.

But blind to former as to future fate, what mortal knows his pre-existent state?

What do I care about Jupiter? Justice is a human issue, and I do not need a god to teach it to me.

For NASA, space is still a high priority.

Most gods throw dice, but Fate plays chess, and you don’t find out til too late that he’s been playing with two queens all along.

It is the strange fate of man, that even in the greatest of evils the fear of the worst continues to haunt him.

The way of the Creative works through change and transformation, so that each thing receives its true nature and destiny and comes into permanent accord with the Great Harmony: this is what furthers and what perseveres.

I put up my thumb and it blotted out the planet Earth.

Fate is nothing but the deeds committed in a prior state of existence.

A man’s character is his fate.

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

Everything that happens happens as it should, and if you observe carefully, you will find this to be so.

There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn.

Every man gotta right to decide his own destiny.

It is clear to everyone that astronomy at all events compels the soul to look upwards, and draws it from the things of this world to the other.

It was a Greek tragedy. Nixon was fulfilling his own nature. Once it started it could not end otherwise.

Bottom line: God will not allow any person to keep you from your destiny. They may be bigger, stronger, or more powerful, but God knows how to shift things around and get you to where you’re supposed to be.

The universe is a big place, perhaps the biggest.

If you want to make God laugh, tell him about your plans.

The centre of the system of the world is immovable.

The awareness that health is dependent upon habits that we control makes us the first generation in history that to a large extent determines its own destiny.

Only by joy and sorrow does a person know anything about themselves and their destiny. They learn what to do and what to avoid.

The truth is, somebody is always talking about you, so you have to let it go… if it’s not a part of your God-given destiny.

We are continually shaped by the forces of coincidence.

Coincidence is God’s way of remaining anonymous.

It is what a man thinks of himself that really determines his fate.

My show ‚The Big House‘ was picked up; they flew me to New York. I’m about to step on stage to announce Kevin Hart’s ‚The Big House.‘ And a hand grabs my shoulder, ‚Kevin no, they just decided to cancel it.‘ It’s a serious smack-in-the-face business, and either you can take it, or you can’t.

Anyone who cannot come to terms with his life while he is alive needs one hand to ward off a little his despair over his fate… but with his other hand he can note down what he sees among the ruins.

I have really been disillusioned with soccer in England.

Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed.

Sometimes when you’ve had a long series of disappointing things happen, you can get into the very bad habit of just expecting more of what you’ve already had.

One life is all we have and we live it as we believe in living it. But to sacrifice what you are and to live without belief, that is a fate more terrible than dying.

I’ve had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn’t it.