We are not permitted to choose the frame of our destiny. But what we put into it is ours. He who wills adventure will experience it.

We think we see the sun rise and set; it is the earth that moves. So with human affairs; we fancy we are active; we are swept along like the rest.

To be in hell is to drift; to be in heaven is to steer.

The best way to think about the future is to invent it. Most people don't like to think about the future because they're not sure they can control it, but if you invent it, then you've already thought about it.

Man can do what he wills, but he cannot will what he wills.

The true paradox of human existence is that we are condemned to be free; we are responsible for what we make of ourselves, yet we perpetually seek to escape this responsibility through bad faith and self-deception.

We are not thinking of the future as we should be. We think of it as if it were a place we are going to, when in fact it is a place we are making.

We are dying from overthinking. We are slowly killing ourselves by drowning in our thoughts. We confuse ourselves as we think in circles, going nowhere—all the while forgetting that we are only ever just one step away from making a choice that could change the direction of our lives.

We are not makers of history. We are made by history.