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• Destiny is no matter of chance. It is a matter of choiche
  It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved. -- William Jennings Brya...
• Destiny is no 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. William Jennings Brya...
• Destiny is not a matter of chance; it is a matter of choice.
• One of the stronger reasons for being disorganized is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries.
  One of the things you discover, for example, is that God hides things simply by putting them near us....
• I drink from the vial marked `POISON' on the off chance that someone put a potion of extra healing in by accident.
• Fear always springs from ignorance.
• The efforts which we make to escape from our destiny only serve to lead us into it.
• From wine what sudden friendship springs!
  -- John Gay (1688-1732) -- Fables, Part ii, The Squire and his Cu...
• If what the philosophers say be true,--that all men's actions proceed from one source
  hat as they assent from a persuasion that a thing is so, and dissent from a persuasion that it is not, and suspend their judgment from a persuasion that it is uncertain,--so likewise they seek a thing from a persuasion that it is for their advantage....