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

All men are prepared to accomplish the incredible if their ideals are threatened.

In order to exist just once in the world, it is necessary never again to exist.

When it’s your time, it is your time.

Life is warfare.

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

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

There’s many ups and downs in the fight game.

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.

Intimates are predestined.

I can control my destiny, but not my fate. Destiny means there are opportunities to turn right or left, but fate is a one-way street. I believe we all have the choice as to whether we fulfil our destiny, but our fate is sealed.

My literature is much more the result of a paradox than that of an implacable logic, typical of police novels. The paradox is the tension that exists in my soul.

I decided, very early on, just to accept life unconditionally; I never expected it to do anything special for me, yet I seemed to accomplish far more than I had ever hoped. Most of the time it just happened to me without my ever seeking it.

The die is cast.

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.

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.

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.

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.

The golden rule is that there are no golden rules.

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

I’m a hard guy to live with. I’m like a caged animal. I’m up all night walking around the living room. It’s hard for me to come down from what I do.

I was born in a very poor family. I used to sell tea in a railway coach as a child. My mother used to wash utensils and do lowly household work in the houses of others to earn a livelihood. I have seen poverty very closely. I have lived in poverty. As a child, my entire childhood was steeped in poverty.

When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate.

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

There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn.

Some of the most moving experiences I’ve had are just in black churches in the South, during the Civil Rights Movement, where people were getting beaten, killed, really struggling for the most elementary rights.

I will not leave South Africa, nor will I surrender. Only through hardship, sacrifice and militant action can freedom be won. The struggle is my life. I will continue fighting for freedom until the end of my days.

The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just.

Gee, its lonesome in the outfield. It’s hard to keep awake with nothing to do.

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.

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

My folks ain’t graduated from high school or nothing like that, so we always had to struggle in the family – and I come from a big family.

Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable… Every step toward the goal of justice requires sacrifice, suffering, and struggle; the tireless exertions and passionate concern of dedicated individuals.

Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.

No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death. He and his are not neglected by the gods.

By denying scientific principles, one may maintain any paradox.

I will seize fate by the throat; it shall certainly never wholly overcome me.

I joyfully hasten to meet death. If it come before I have had opportunity to develop all my artistic faculties, it will come, my hard fate notwithstanding, too soon, and I should probably wish it later – yet even then I shall be happy, for will it not deliver me from a state of endless suffering?

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

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

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

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

Some men can live up to their loftiest ideals without ever going higher than a basement.

The fact that the adult American Negro female emerges a formidable character is often met with amazement, distaste and even belligerance. It is seldom accepted as an inevitable outcome of the struggle won by survivors, and deserves respect if not enthusiastic acceptance.

We spend our time searching for security and hate it when we get it.

My life is a struggle.

We combat obstacles in order to get repose, and when got, the repose is insupportable.

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.

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

I think in defeat you grope for things that are happy, and it’s hard.

Fortune brings in some boats that are not steered.

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.

If you cannot understand that there is something in man which responds to the challenge of this mountain and goes out to meet it, that the struggle is the struggle of life itself upward and forever upward, then you won’t see why we go.

A revolution is not a bed of roses.

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

A hundred struggle and drown in the breakers. One discovers the new world. But rather, ten times rather, die in the surf, heralding the way to that new world, than stand idly on the shore.

There’ll always be serendipity involved in discovery.

Whatever must happen ultimately should happen immediately.

Those who have a true understanding of America know that we have no desire for territorial expansion, for economic or other domination of other peoples. Such purposes are repugnant to our ideals of human freedom.

The unnatural, that too is natural.

Coincidence is God’s way of remaining anonymous.