Who said this? It is a part of poetry when Nelson Mandela was a prison. Nelson Mandela said “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.” 2.8.2 Why did he say so? I will focused on last two sentence because they are the most golden sentence of this poetry “I am the master of my fate: I am the captain of my soul.” It had not something to stop you because you can control your action or your mind such as you think you would to be a pilot. How should you be a pilot? It is depended on your action and your dream. You are controlled every things in yourself.