Luck is not chance, it’s toil; fortune’s expensive smile is earned.

The way of fortune is like the milkyway in the sky; which is a number of small stars, not seen asunder, but giving light together: so it is a number of little and scarce discerned virtues, or rather faculties and customs, that make men fortunate.

I’ve been very lucky, and therefore I owe it to try and reduce the inequity in the world. And that’s kind of a religious belief. I mean, it’s at least a moral belief.

I’ve had the good fortune and blessing to run for the offices for which I really wanted to do the work.

God not only plays dice, but also sometimes throws them where they cannot be seen.

Richard Burton came from the same town as me, so I thought I’d follow my nose, and follow my luck. I think I’ve been very lucky.

I’ve been very lucky. I come from a very close family.

Few people realize that luck is created.

The fortune which nobody sees makes a person happy and unenvied.

Peace begins with a smile.

Puny man can do nothing at all to help or please God Almighty, and Luck is not the hand of God.

Ideas are the beginning points of all fortunes.

Every possession and every happiness is but lent by chance for an uncertain time, and may therefore be demanded back the next hour.

For a long time now I have tried simply to write the best I can. Sometimes I have good luck and write better than I can.

We shall never know all the good that a simple smile can do.

Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.

Let us always meet each other with smile, for the smile is the beginning of love.

War is a game that is played with a smile. If you can’t smile, grin. If you can’t grin, keep out of the way till you can.

I’ve had quite a lot of luck with dreams. I’ve often awoken in the night with a phrase or even a whole song in my head.

I have never believed much in luck, and my sense of humor has tended to walk on the dark side.

Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better.

It’s going to be a season with lots of accidents, and I’ll risk saying that we’ll be lucky if something really serious doesn’t happen.

For some reason, I have better luck when I work with women. I guess I have a good sense of sisterhood.

I feel very lucky to make a living from my imagination; I’m very grateful for that. I like that what I do is create. I’m feeling very lucky to have had the career I had. It’s gone much longer and bigger than I ever thought it would be.

A great fortune is a great slavery.

If you have only one smile in you give it to the people you love.

Nothing goes by luck in composition. It allows of no tricks. The best you can write will be the best you are.

A man willing to work, and unable to find work, is perhaps the saddest sight that fortune’s inequality exhibits under this sun.

Chance is an element of life. What I try to do is study what I call the mechanics of reality as carefully as I can.

The real lover is the man who can thrill you just by touching your head or smiling into your eyes – or just by staring into space.

I think most of the people involved in any art always secretly wonder whether they are really there because they’re good or there because they’re lucky.

Nothing is as obnoxious as other people’s luck.

Well, if Fortune be a woman, she’s a good wench for this gear.

Human felicity is produced not as much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen as by little advantages that occur every day.

I’m very lucky. The public happens to like me. Maybe they like me because I use every opportunity to talk about injustice.

To win a national championship, you’ve got to be a little lucky.

Why am I here? I’m not lucky. That’s God.

Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.

There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. Omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat. And we must take the current when it serves, or lose our ventures.

All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to improve his own. And if fortune carries him to worse, he may learn to enjoy it.

Fortune brings in some boats that are not steered.

Fortune is like the market, where, many times, if you can stay a little, the price will fall.

Fortune befriends the bold.

If cash comes with fame, come fame; if cash comes without fame, come cash.

First, I want to pay tribute to Diana myself. She was an exceptional and gifted human being. In good times and bad, she never lost her capacity to smile and laugh, nor to inspire others with her warmth and kindness. I admired and respected her – for her energy and commitment to others, and especially for her devotion to her two boys.

It was the nation and the race dwelling all round the globe that had the lion’s heart. I had the luck to be called upon to give the roar.

One is lucky to be born in a place where no one is doing it, because then you can say, ‚Well, obviously I can write better than everyone else in high school.‘ You have no idea of the competition.

Most of the time, I’m not even working; I’m just helping people, because I feel that I am too lucky.

Science predicts that many different kinds of universe will be spontaneously created out of nothing. It is a matter of chance which we are in.

Luck is believing you’re lucky.

Moderation has been called a virtue to limit the ambition of great men, and to console undistinguished people for their want of fortune and their lack of merit.

The man who is intent on making the most of his opportunities is too busy to bother about luck.

He that waits upon fortune, is never sure of a dinner.

Mind your speech a little lest you should mar your fortunes.

Humor has bailed me out of more tight situations than I can think of. If you go with your instincts and keep your humor, creativity follows. With luck, success comes, too.

Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect.

Luck is a matter of preparation meeting opportunity.

One thing I have learned in my painful career as a gambler is that bragging when you get lucky and win a few games will plunge you into gloom and unacceptable beatings very soon. It happens every time.

Because of your smile, you make life more beautiful.

If we are peaceful, if we are happy, we can smile, and everyone in our family, our entire society, will benefit from our peace.