“Destiny is not a matter of chance; it is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for; it is a thing to be achieved.”

“Choice, not chance, determines your destiny.”

“If you are going to achieve excellence in big things, you develop the habit in little matters. Excellence is not an exception, it is a prevailing attitude.”

“Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least.”

“Energy is liberated matter, matter is energy waiting to happen.”

“There's no such thing as chance;
And what to us seems merest accident
Springs from the deepest source of destiny.”

“What does it matter? Science has achieved some wonderful things, of course, but I'd far rather be happy than right any day.”

“I never had, and still do not have, the perception of feeling my personal identity. I appear to myself as the place where something is going on, but there is no ‘I’, no ‘me.’ Each of us is a kind of crossroads where things happen. The crossroads is purely passive; something happens there. A different thing, equally valid, happens elsewhere. There is no choice, it is just a matter of chance.”

“Obsessions are the only things that matter.”

“The choice you make this November will shape great things, historic things, and those things will determine the most intimate and important aspects of every American life and every American family. This is an election about America, and it is an election about the American family. All elections matter. This one matters a great deal. Over the years of our nation’s history, choices our fellow citizens have made have changed the country’s course–they were turning points of defining consequence.”