Quotes
I sat for hours cross-legged, and cross-tempered, upon my silks meditating upon the queer freaks chance plays upon us poor devils of mortals.
The sword of destiny has two edges. You are one of them.
We are what we were at birth, and each trait has remained
in conformity with earth's and with heaven's logic:
Be the devil's tool, resort to black magic,
None can diverge from the ends which Heaven foreordained.
I used to look at homeless peopleand try to imagine what they had once looked like. It's not easy. Beneath the grime and degradation is a face once adored by someone. It's a truth that tricks the eye; our glances slide away. But something happened to ruin that life, to strip it bare; and it was something small, something that but for the grace of God could take us, too.
"The world is a wheel always turning."
Fate always gives you two choices, the one you should take, and the one you do.
Luck is what happens to you when fate gets tired of waiting.
Fate’s way of beating us in a fair fight is to give us warnings that we hear, but never heed.
Fate gives all of us three teachers, three friends, three enemies, and three great loves in our lives. But these twelve are always disguised, and we can never know which one is which until we've loved them, left them, or fought them.
If fate doesn't make you laugh, then you don't get the joke.
Sometimes you do something, and you get screwed. Sometimes it's the things you don't do, and you get screwed.
If a man who claims to see the future is a fool,
how much more so, the man who believes he can control it?
We think we steer the ship of fate,
but all of us are guided by unseen stars.
