Swami Chinmayananda on Fate / Destiny
If humanity is not to grow sufficiently strong to become a master of the machines that it makes, the present civilization of slavery to iron wheels pounding to the rhythm of lust shall stand, indeed, condemned. But in case we can grow into a self-mastery in ourselves, sufficient to rule over the forces of nature that we have released, certainly we shall preserve our secular endowments and come to live served by them as a Sultan of Destiny.