It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishments the scroll,
I am the master of my fate:
I am the captain of my soul.
Source: Echoes, IV, 'Invictus. In Mem. R.T.H.B.'
-- William Ernest Henley, (Aug 23 1849-1903), English poet, critic, editor; His journals introduced the early work of many of the great English writers of the 1890s; best known for his poem Invictus.