By the time a person has achieved years adequate for choosing a direction the die is cast and the moment has long since passed which determined the future.

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.

I am optimistic that peace can be achieved in the region because I believe that every society on earth can be free and that if freedom comes to the Middle East there can be peace.

Today hundreds of millions dwell in freedom from the Baltic to the Adriatic from the Western Approaches to the Aegean. And while we must never take this for granted the first purpose of the European Union - to secure peace - has been achieved and we should pay tribute to all those in the EU alongside Nato who made that happen.

In South Africa we could not have achieved our freedom and just peace without the help of people around the world who through the use of non-violent means such as boycotts and divestment encouraged their governments and other corporate actors to reverse decades-long support for the Apartheid regime.

No one's ever achieved financial fitness with a January resolution that's abandoned by February.

They can gas me but I am famous. I have achieved in one day what it took Robert Kennedy all his life to do.

Hitler was so modern in that he was obsessed with being famous. He was caught up with this rush to be have achieved greatness before turning 30.

No man ever achieved worth-while success who did not at one time or other find himself with at least one foot hanging well over the brink of failure.

Success is often achieved by those who don't know that failure is inevitable.