“- Sarah Williams: So few people get what they want. And the ones they do aren't really the lucky ones anyway.
- Fielding Pierce: They're not? Who are?
- Sarah Williams: The ones that do what they are meant to.”
Jennifer Lynn Connelly - Sarah Williams
Billy Crudup - Fielding Pierce

“They can break your cookie, but you'll always have your fortune.”
Don Knotts - T.W. Turtle

“Fate. Destiny. Luck. The prisons of man. People pass the time, enjoying the choices life provides—coffee or tea, right or left. As if it matters. We are all just spinning on the wheel. There is but one way to keep off the wheel. It's not youth. It's not beauty or true love. I know how to stay off the wheel. I control my fate.”
Jessica Lange - Elsa Mars

“Who can say for certain what a man was really born to be? That's God's will.”
Donald Crisp - Father John Callahan, C.S.C

“Someday Knute will find his right place in the world, and when he does, whether it be science or not, I have a feeling it will be the one he was meant to do.”
Donald Crisp - Father John Callahan, C.S.C