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

He who wishes to be rich in a day will be hanged in a year.

Life is a constant oscillation between the sharp horns of dilemmas.

I am extraordinarily patient, provided I get my own way in the end.

The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity.

Fortune, which has a great deal of power in other matters but especially in war, can bring about great changes in a situation through very slight forces.

Do not keep saying to yourself, if you can possibly avoid it, ‚But how can it be like that?‘ because you will get ‚down the drain,‘ into a blind alley from which nobody has yet escaped. Nobody knows how it can be like that.

There’s no point in making predictions. It’s not worth speculating because nothing is set in stone and things change all the time in football. Today there are opportunities that no one knows if they will come round again in the future.

If you only do things where you know the answer in advance, your company goes away.

Opportunity makes a thief.

The first two games for Churchill, I was so jittery that I didn’t know what to do. I was running more but didn’t know what to do. I’ve no bones accepting the fact that I didn’t know what was happening in the game.

You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait, be quiet still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet.

A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.

A fool and his money are soon elected.

Life is anything but predictable.

A great fortune is a great slavery.

We are ready for any unforeseen event that may or may not occur.

The woman that deliberates is lost.

The more I see the less I know for sure.

It is not like I have gone crazy, I just don’t want to take any chances. You never know what could happen.

To teach how to live without certainty and yet without being paralysed by hesitation is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy, in our age, can do for those who study it.

Writing is good, thinking is better. Cleverness is good, patience is better.

Often, I can scarcely hear any one speaking to me; the tones yes, but not the actual words; yet as soon as any one shouts, it is unbearable. What will come of all this, heaven only knows!

The first man gets the oyster, the second man gets the shell.

Good character is not formed in a week or a month. It is created little by little, day by day. Protracted and patient effort is needed to develop good character.

Fortune brings in some boats that are not steered.

Life is a gamble. You can get hurt, but people die in plane crashes, lose their arms and legs in car accidents; people die every day. Same with fighters: some die, some get hurt, some go on. You just don’t let yourself believe it will happen to you.

He that sows thorns should never go barefoot.

If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable.

Our lifelong certainties about the world can be demolished in a single second.

Whether I’m running on the beach without my shirt or whether I’m going out with my kids or going to church or going out to dinner – I don’t choose to insulate myself in engaging in real life. Hence, the public kind of almost knows me as much through my real life that they see through the rag mags.

Talent without discipline is like an octopus on roller skates. There’s plenty of movement, but you never know if it’s going to be forward, backwards, or sideways.

He that can have patience can have what he will.

This is the first age that’s ever paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one.

Being on tour is like being in limbo. It’s like going from nowhere to nowhere.

Waking up every day and loving someone who may or may not love us back, whose safety we can’t ensure, who may stay in our lives or may leave without a moment’s notice, who may be loyal to the day they die or betray us tomorrow – that’s vulnerability.

I might just write a novel next. I don’t know!

Endurance is patience concentrated.

Love and doubt have never been on speaking terms.

Manners require time, and nothing is more vulgar than haste.

Some scientists believe climate change is the cause of unprecedented melting of the North Pole, and that effects these very uncertain weather patterns. I think we should listen to those scientists and experts.

In this quest to seek and find God in all things, there is still an area of uncertainty. There must be. If a person says that he met God with total certainty and is not touched by a margin of uncertainty, then this is not good.

My kids always perceived the bathroom as a place where you wait it out until all the groceries are unloaded from the car.

Certain though I am – and ever more certain – that I must press on in life as though Christ awaited me at the term of the universe, at the same time I feel no special assurance of the existence of Christ. Believing is not seeing. As much as anyone, I imagine, I walk in the shadows of faith.

An ass may bray a good while before he shakes the stars down.

One is never afraid of the unknown; one is afraid of the known coming to an end.

And no, we don’t know where it will lead. We just know there’s something much bigger than any of us here.

Prepare for the unknown by studying how others in the past have coped with the unforeseeable and the unpredictable.

Don’t complain. The Israelites wasted forty years murmuring and complaining in the wilderness, when they could have just obeyed God and entered into their Promised Land.

No one can possibly know what is about to happen: it is happening, each time, for the first time, for the only time.

Therefore if a man look sharply and attentively, he shall see Fortune; for though she be blind, yet she is not invisible.

For one swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short time, does not make a man blessed and happy.

I think you can judge from somebody’s actions a kind of a stability and sense of purpose perhaps created by strong religious roots. I mean, there’s a certain patience, a certain discipline, I think, that religion helps you achieve.

The bad fortune of the good turns their faces up to heaven; the good fortune of the bad bows their heads down to the earth.

I’m not a fortune-teller.

When I tell a child something the first time, I’m nice. The 15th time, I start to get aggravated.

If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them missionaries for dinner.

If you are the kind of person who is waiting for the ‚right‘ thing to happen, you might wait for a long time. It’s like waiting for all the traffic lights to be green for five miles before starting the trip.

To some extent I happily don’t know what I’m doing. I feel that it’s an artist’s responsibility to trust that.

The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

Most of the time I spend when I get up in the morning is trying to figure out what is going to happen.