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

Eternal principles that govern happiness apply equally to all.

A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life.

Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.

Success and failure are equally disastrous.

There should be a point to movies. Sure, you’re giving people a diversion from the cold world for a bit, but at the same time, you pass on some facts and rules and maybe a little bit of wisdom.

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

If God had wanted me otherwise, He would have created me otherwise.

Regrets are the natural property of grey hairs.

Human felicity is produced not as much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen as by little advantages that occur every day.

No one gets away with anything, ever, so take responsibility for your own life.

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

I do believe in the old saying, ‚What does not kill you makes you stronger.‘ Our experiences, good and bad, make us who we are. By overcoming difficulties, we gain strength and maturity.

Fortune befriends the bold.

The worst men often give the best advice.

I believe the destiny of your generation – and your nation – is a rendezvous with excellence.

For most of us, wisdom is acquired in the thicket of experience and usually meets us somewhere along the way if we live long enough. But sooner is better than later.

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 fortune which nobody sees makes a person happy and unenvied.

As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.

Life is one big road with lots of signs. So when you riding through the ruts, don’t complicate your mind. Flee from hate, mischief and jealousy. Don’t bury your thoughts, put your vision to reality. Wake Up and Live!

The reward of suffering is experience.

If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way.

We have been so successful in the past century at the art of living longer and staying alive that we have forgotten how to die. Too often we learn the hard way. As soon as the baby boomers pass pensionable age, their lesson will be harsher still.

Intimates are predestined.

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.‘

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.

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

Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.

Coming generations will learn equality from poverty, and love from woes.

As I grow up, the lessons I learn in love and relationships and how we treat each other are hopefully maturing – hopefully.

It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again.

Bottom line is, I didn’t return to Apple to make a fortune. I’ve been very lucky in my life and already have one. When I was 25, my net worth was $100 million or so. I decided then that I wasn’t going to let it ruin my life. There’s no way you could ever spend it all, and I don’t view wealth as something that validates my intelligence.

One must know oneself. If this does not serve to discover truth, it at least serves as a rule of life and there is nothing better.

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

We are continually shaped by the forces of coincidence.

A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way.

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 are good and bad times, but our mood changes more often than our fortune.

Blessed are the people whose leaders can look destiny in the eye without flinching but also without attempting to play God.

In golf, the player, coach and official are rolled into one, and they overlap completely. Golf really is the best microcosm of life – or at least the way life should be.

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 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.

There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. Omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat. And we must take the current when it serves, or lose our ventures.

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

What by a straight path cannot be reached by crooked ways is never won.

The way of fortune is like the milkyway in the sky; which is a number of small stars, not seen asunder, but giving light together: so it is a number of little and scarce discerned virtues, or rather faculties and customs, that make men fortunate.

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

The side of fairytales I don’t like is that they always have happy endings, that there’s just good and evil, and things are perfect. But life is a little more complicated, and that’s what I try to teach my kids.

The things hardest to bear are sweetest to remember.

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

I never had a speech from my father ‚this is what you must do or shouldn’t do‘ but I just learned to be led by example. My father wasn’t perfect.

A broad margin of leisure is as beautiful in a man’s life as in a book. Haste makes waste, no less in life than in housekeeping. Keep the time, observe the hours of the universe, not of the cars.

If it doesn’t work out there will never be any doubt that the pleasure was worth all the pain.

Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.

When I was four, my mother insisted I get out of the car and find my own way home. Although I got lost, I did find my way home. It taught me the value of independence at an early age.

And in real life endings aren’t always neat, whether they’re happy endings, or whether they’re sad endings.

If God treats you well by teaching you a disastrous lesson, you never forget it.

It seems that it had been destined before that I should occupy myself so thoroughly with the vulture, for it comes to my mind as a very early memory, when I was still in the cradle, a vulture came down to me, he opened my mouth with his tail and struck me a few times with his tail against my lips.

Life is about conduct and how we conduct ourselves. But two wrongs never make a right.

Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.