Invictus

out of the night that covers me

black as the pit from pole to pole

I thank whatever gods may be

for my unconquerable soul

in the fell clutch of circumstance

I have not winced or cried aloud

under the bludgeoning of fate

my head is bloody, but unbowed

beyond this place of wrath and tears 

looms but the horror of the shade

and yet the menace of the years

finds, and shall find, me unafraid

it matters not how strait the gate

how charged with punishment the sroll

I am the master of my fate

I am the captain of my soul

A victorian poem by William Ernest Henley that motivated Mandela living his 27 years in prison during apartheid. This poem also a key of the movie with same name wherein Morgan Freeman played Mandela