It seems to be the fate of idealists to obtain what they have struggled for in a form which destroys their ideals.

The way up and the way down are one and the same.

I did suffer a lot since karting, with my size and everything, not really having a clue what to do when I started karting. So I suffered in every category: F4, F3, F2. Not so much F2 but I’ve had to kind of play catch-up quite a bit and in some ways, F1 was a bit nicer with power steering.

The world is in a constant conspiracy against the brave. It’s the age-old struggle: the roar of the crowd on the one side, and the voice of your conscience on the other.

Remember upon the conduct of each depends the fate of all.

The more nobly a man wills and acts, the more avid he becomes for great and sublime aims to pursue. He will no longer be content with family, country, and the remunerative aspect of his work. He will want wider organisations to create, new paths to blaze, causes to uphold, truths to discover, an ideal to cherish and defend.

It seems a fantastic paradox, but it is nevertheless a most important truth, that no architecture can be truly noble which is not imperfect.

I’m not somebody that thinks about destiny and fate, but I don’t walk away from it when something unfolds.

Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat; the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.

Fate pulls you in different directions.

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.

With patient and firm determination, I am going to press on for jobs. I’m going to press on for equality. I’m going to press on for the sake of our children. I’m going to press on for the sake of all those families who are struggling right now. I don’t have time to feel sorry for myself. I don’t have time to complain. I am going to press on.

God wants to help us… He loves us… we are His children. But He will not force His help on us at any time. He sees us when we struggle and fight and complain our way through things. And I believe it breaks His heart, when all we have to do is ask Him for help.

Fortune brings in some boats that are not steered.

It’s a curse. I ask God to take this away from me all the time. I do not like being an artist.

Men do not shape destiny, Destiny produces the man for the hour.

To die for an idea; it is unquestionably noble. But how much nobler it would be if men died for ideas that were true!

What nourishes me also destroys me.

Everything I read about hitting a midlife crisis was true. I had such a struggle letting go of youthful things and learning how to exist and have enthusiasm while settling into the comfort of an older age.

Coincidence is God’s way of remaining anonymous.

If you stop struggling, then you stop life.

Education comes from within; you get it by struggle and effort and thought.

I hate to see anybody sink. I hate to see anybody lose their dream, lose their home, something like that.

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.

The Soviet government is the most realistic regime in the world – no ideals.

Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.

It’s always a struggle growing up in Akron.

Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.

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

I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.

Of the love or hatred God has for the English, I know nothing, but I do know that they will all be thrown out of France, except those who die there.

Whatever fortune has raised to a height, she has raised only to cast it down.

By denying scientific principles, one may maintain any paradox.

All truth is simple… is that not doubly a lie?

We are faced with the paradoxical fact that education has become one of the chief obstacles to intelligence and freedom of thought.

No other country in the world does what we do. On every issue, the world turns to us, not simply because of the size of our economy or our military might – but because of the ideals we stand for, and the burdens we bear to advance them.

Man does not control his own fate. The women in his life do that for him.

Most of us experience a life full of wonderful moments and difficult moments. But for many of us, even when we are most joyful, there is fear behind our joy.

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

I had faith in Israel before it was established, I have in it now. I believe it has a glorious future before it – not just another sovereign nation, but as an embodiment of the great ideals of our civilization.

I know what it feels like to struggle to get the education that you need.

If you can look into the seeds of time, and say which grain will grow and which will not, speak then unto me.

In my country of South Africa, we struggled for years against the evil system of apartheid that divided human beings, children of the same God, by racial classification and then denied many of them fundamental human rights.

To hold a pen is to be at war.

Normally, when someone we love is turning away from a struggle, we self-protect by also turning away. That’s definitely my first response. I think change is more likely to happen if both partners have common language and a shared lens to see problems.

There’s always a bittersweet kind of thing, but I feel like everything had to work out the way it is. Everything that had to happen, happened.

It is also true that one can write nothing readable unless one constantly struggles to efface one’s own personality. Good prose is like a windowpane.

There’ll always be serendipity involved in discovery.

Call it Nature, Fate, Fortune; all these are names of the one and selfsame God.

Our national determination to keep free of foreign wars and foreign entanglements cannot prevent us from feeling deep concern when ideals and principles that we have cherished are challenged.

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.

There will always be something to ruin our lives, it all depends on what or which finds us first. We are always ripe and ready to be taken.

The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity.

When the gods wish to punish us they answer our prayers.

Intimates are predestined.

The point of philosophy is to start with something so simple as not to seem worth stating, and to end with something so paradoxical that no one will believe it.

There are many events in the womb of time, which will be delivered.

The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible.

At the outset, I want to say that the suggestion that the struggle in South Africa is under the influence of foreigners or communists is wholly incorrect. I have done whatever I did because of my experience in South Africa and my own proudly felt African background, and not because of what any outsider might have said.

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.

I’ve written some great things. That’s a gift, but there’s consequences. Yeah, you get this great work, but you suffer. You really, really suffer.